Convicted Felon Donald Trump has declared war on international justice, to benefit Putin - Guardian
So the US regime led by a convicted criminal is sanctioning courts that are going after criminals. The American nation now operates as a criminal syndicate.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/donald-trump-icc-sanctions-details-australia-impact-ntwnfb
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The ICC sanction is designed to intimidate and stop it from working against war criminals,
Geoffrey Robertson writes
…. Trump has declared war on international justice by the dictatorial device of an executive order. He has sanctioned the international criminal court. This empowers him to seize any funds belonging to the court or its judges or employees and to ban them from entering the US. He issued a similar sanction, during his previous presidency, but it was overturned by Joe Biden before court challenges to it could be heard. This time it will prevent ICC leaders from entering New York to report to the UN and will end cooperation to provide evidence to ICC prosecutors for action against Russian commanders. The greatest beneficiary of Trump’s sanction will be Vladimir Putin.
Australia is one of the 125 state members of the ICC but, inexplicably, it has not yet spoken out against Trump’s puerile initiative. Seventy-nine state members immediately did so, with allies including the UK, Germany and France describing their support for the court’s independence, impartiality and integrity as “unwavering”. They warned that Trump’s decision might imperil the confidentiality and safety of victims of the crimes being investigated.
Australia should speak out in similar terms. Our judges and our lawyers played a vital part in the Tokyo trials after the second world war, and Australia made a significant contribution to the trials of war criminals in the Balkans and Sierra Leone, and has fully supported the ICC up to this point. Trump’s hostility provides no reason to withdraw from a court which has so much work still to do in Myanmar, Sudan, the Congo and elsewhere, since 20 armed and lethal conflicts continue, in the world, at present.
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