Mastodawn

So, NGL, I did not actually have "Canada and the UK announce they will enforce the ICC warrants on Netanyahu" on my bingo card.

If the US's plan is to strongarm its allies into imploding the ICC, they're going to have a lotta allies to contend with.

I presumed the countries choosing to officially ignore an ongoing genocide would present a unified reactionary front - but umm, apparently not? I do not know if it's within the US's POWER to compel this many states directly. Seems unlikely.

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AnarchoNinaWrites Nov 22, 2024

Now of course, this all remains less impactful if the countries choosing to abide by the ICC ruling/warrants don't do anything meaningful to isolate the US for ignoring them and trying to tear down what passes for international law. They can still just blithely pretend everything is normal; but that position will not look credible in their homes when their government is saying they'll enact the arrest orders. Only a matter of time before public sentiment reflects that contradiction.

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Brad Rosenheim Nov 23, 2024

@AnarchoNinaWrites Perchance those allies are signaling to the world and to each other that expect not to allies with us too much longer. Why play along when the rules to allieship will change on January 20?

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Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂Nov 23, 2024

@AnarchoNinaWrites of course saying it is one thing, doing it quite another…
But my reading of Starmer is that he is an obsequious nobody who is obsessed with obeying/enforcing the rules — anybody's rules. So this fits.