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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4480697

US politicians threaten to invade Int'l Criminal Court if Israel faces war crimes charges

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago

Please do this America it would be ridiculously funny and also literally turn the entire world against you forever

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Given current track records, they’d probably get some ~~mercenaries~~ intelligence contractors with more connections than skills to carry out the attack and they’d botch the job so hard it would just make them and the U.S. government look like buffoons.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

It'll make a great Dollop ep, I'm sure.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

they'd get some ukronazis to do it and then blame russia for it or something

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago

death to america

try those senators at the hague too

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

HERE WE GO BABY IT'S RULESBASED INTERNATIONAL ORDWR TIME

[-] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

Hey it's 100% rules based. Exactly like the board game I just made up. Not very fun, kinda unfair, but I definitely made the rules to benefit me and only me. It has this neat function where I get a veto card every turn to cancel anything you do I disagree with!

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

How is Biden the harm reduction president again?

Started two wars

Ended a bunch of social safety nets

Is ready to invade an ally over a genocidal regime

Oh yeah, and genocide.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

no you dont understand hes the president for norms and international stability

um, dont think about it vote

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

please do

that will be the final note of the USA before it enters full death spiral

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 6 months ago

Well good thing the senate doesn't have that sort of power

But if you want to speedrun total collapse of the US and/or everyone being incinerated in thermonuclear war... keep making baseless threats. Baseless in that these specific morons literally can't do the thing and also baseless like the whole world saw the US lose every fucking war it's ever done. It's proxy military, basically a bud off the main plant, is currently losing to a non-state entity and has resorted to just blowing up universities and bombing children to pretend they're winning anything.

No balls Biden btw. If he perceived the Republicans as any actual threat to "democracy" in the US (which he has only been destroying further for at least 7 months now...) they just literally handed him a free pass to send all these dipshits on a one way trip to The Hague and have them gone and dealt with in an instant. You can't call for war against allies in their positions. Many of them have also directly incited violence against random students if he wants more reasons. He's done that too though... I guess my only solution here is basically gather all of them, in a movie, like Independence Day (the movie. Fake. Hollywood. Etc.) then just like the movie... a giant spaceship will hover over it and pewpew a laser a mile in diameter. Problem fucking solved.

[-] Teapot@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

I'm no Biden defender. But if you think the threat is baseless, can I introduce you to President Trump in 2025? He is going to be president, and he absolutely does have the balls to sanction, or worse, the ICC.

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Oh no not a dang cheeto in the white house?!?

cheeto-man

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This bit is a little too good, better step off the gas 'cause people are falling for it.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Nah teapot is actually just a lib lol

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Then we'll all die in thermonuclear war

Please stop.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Whereas they'd be happy to convict Russia of warcrimes without 5 seconds of thought.

[-] Ideology@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

I will be absolutely hilarious when they show their whole ass and then the newspapers come out with "those dang communist Europeans deserved it".

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

This isn't a serious threat, they could never.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Hague Invasion Act is from 2002. I don't know anything about international law but all the US would need to do is fudge "intent" to make it cover Israel. "...or allied personnel" is already in the text.

American Service-Members' Protection Act

The American Service-Members' Protection Act (enacted August 2, 2002), known informally as The Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law described as "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party."

The Act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah at first I was like nah no way they threatened to “invade The Hague”, but they really kinda did. Lunatics.

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m pretty sure America actually has a law or something about this and yeah they would unironically. Like if any American were to actually be tried for war crimes they would invade The Hague. I assume that goes for Israel too.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Wow, I didn't know that! It still seems like bluster, though.. They would throw NATO into chaos if they did that... More power to them, I say. Do it, see what happens to your hegemony.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Honestly I really hope they do though.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

I don't know that they would need to really invade, they could probably just send some missiles and call it a day

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

The zionist playbook. Shoot missiles at your hostages in order to save your hostages.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

i'm glad that this is completely against usa's laws as a global peacekeeping operation

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