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Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "US puts ICC prosecutor on blacklist for criminals u0026 terrorists | DW News" video.
@kemwittalltree9650 So we've come this. Investigating war crimes is contrary to US interests. There goes your credibility as a morally upstanding nation, right down the drain.
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Yeah, if you like political isolation and your influence curbed.
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@kemwittalltree9650 The ICC is an international tribunal that happens to sit in the Netherlands. Would you describe the UN as an American institution, because it's headquartered in New York? I'm sure the Chinese will eventually answer for their human rights abuses in The Hague. But it's interesting that you equate yourselves to the Chinese. Your use of whataboutism, an all-time favourite of communist regimes, is interesting, too. Enjoy your isolation.
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@kemwittalltree9650 OK, you're back-pedalling. You originally wrote "directly elected by US citizens". Now you're modifying it to "elected by our Senators who are elected by citizens". That means indirectly elected by the citizens. The ICC member states elect the ICC judges in the same manner. Unlike the USA, Afghanistan is a member state of the ICC. In consequence, the ICC has jurisdiction in Afghanistan, so they're within their rights to investigate possible war crimes committed there. The US has no reservations about investigating crimes committed by foreigners on US soil. So what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander? You're repeating yourself. I have no use for your personal opinions on the UN or Bretton Woods.
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@brehgankage6242 ...and shaking their heads.
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Doubt it. The country will remain badly torn. And I don't think Trump will stay on the sidelines once kicked out.
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@kemwittalltree9650 Foreign to you or not, the ICC is international. Come to think of it, your supreme court isn't directly elected by US citizens either, so in your book it must be foreign, too. I totally agree that the UN headquarters should relocate to Switzerland. With that hostile entity gone, you can fully concentrate on being hostile to one another. Have a nice ACW2!
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@kemwittalltree9650 OK, so we should also start jailing US judges if they preside over court proceedings in which our compatriots stand accused. Tit for tat, right? "Our beloved leader" -- are you sure you aren't a North Korean agent? No sane person speaks about his or her leader in those terms.
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@kemwittalltree9650 OK, North Korean.
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@DeathbyRURU6502 I'm sorry to say our GDP -- adjusted for population size -- runs circles around yours. Nearly twice the number, it would appear. I wouldn't flaunt with nuclear weapons either. It amounts to bragging about you having a very powerful and expensive handgun, which, when discharged, blows your head clean off. Does mutual assured destruction mean anything to you?
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@DeathbyRURU6502 Interestingly, we have the highest population growth rate in Europe. Be that as it may, it will be a looong drop to your GDP per capita level. My family hails from Northern Europe, from where my dad was adopted as a war orphan. You never did anything to safeguard them from authoritarianism. Actually, the balance tipped the other way.
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