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US warns ICC member states to drop proceedings against Israel (www.lemonde.fr)

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The warning was direct, blunt and left no room for doubt. "We expect all ICC actions against the United States and our ally Israel – that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants – to be terminated," said Reed Rubinstein, legal adviser at the US State Department, before delegates of the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, July 8, at a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York from July 7 to 9.

If the ICC arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant on November 21, 2024, as well as ongoing investigations into crimes committed in the Gaza Strip and the settlement of Palestinian territory, are not dropped, "all options remain on the table," he declared.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Member countries would have to divest from the dollar first. We got everyone to use our currencies as a form of stabilizing politics and now we have a group of bad actors using that to their advantage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

EUR is honestly a better reserve currency, more stable already.

About divesting from dollars - I dunno how hard this is. Probably would be better for the US to provoke it to signal that time is nigh. Because otherwise this can only happen very slowly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

BRICS is making headway with that.

The US empire is already in decline. What it's allies need to work out is when to jump ship

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

BRICS has the downside of including Russia.

It might not seem that way, but Russia is actually the shittiest of USA's minions. Its "independent" actions like war with Ukraine are no more independent in fact than those of Saudis.

It's definitely aligned with the stinkier part of USA's elites, but somehow had good enough relationship with all of them.

Maybe reforming UN as a candidate for some actual world confederation would be a better idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

And g7 has good economical ties to israel. If russia is well tied to the other brics countries it would be easier to pressure them to end the war

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'll bite. This is a genuinely new take I haven't seen before, despite 3 years of the war. Would you mind explaining how exactly Russia is an American minion?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Can someone on lemmygrad post a reminder that many instances have defederated from you and can therefore not see your comments. I keep seeing you peeps replying to people that will never see your comments.

lemmy.world is one of them. Rottingleaf is not going to see your comment, it doesn't show up on lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm stupid. I completely forgot that the worlders have enforced an authoritarian tankie censorship regime 😔