Not are beloved Putin!
Which is not a sure bet.
A large number of our "political elites" need to quickly STFU if they want to keep their phony-baloney jobs.
ICC = International Cricket Council?
That’s a wicked googly!
Why would Putin want to snatch Ukrainian children?
“ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over Ukraine war crimes”
Good! That’s effectively a major sanction against the SOB because now he can be interdicted when he travels abroad and any nation receiving him can be in turn sanctioned for harboring an international fugitive.
PING!!!!!!!
I’ve not had any respect for the ICC since it’s inception.
It was not backed even close by a majority of UN nations.
Bill Clinton signed to join on his last days in office.
GW was too busy to withdraw that approval.
It is an attempt to put all nations under the direction of
a world government.
No!
This is ill advised. They can’t arrest Putin, and if they
tried it would be an open invitation to an invasion.
I couldn’t blame Russia if it did. What we pulled off
with Noriega would not fly with a nation like Russia as
the adversary. It shouldn’t.
This is the same court that people like Biden want to give jurisdiction to in order to charge people in the USA.
Decisions of International Criminal Court (ICC) have no meaning for our country, including from legal point of view, Russia is not party to treaty on establishment of ICC and bears no obligations under it - Maria Zakharova (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia)
Who and what army is going to arrest him?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7427
22 U.S. Code § 7427 - Authority to free members of the Armed Forces of the United States and certain other persons detained or imprisoned by or on behalf of the International Criminal Court(a) Authority
The President is authorized to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.
(b) Persons authorized to be freed
The authority of subsection (a) shall extend to the following persons:
(1) Covered United States persons.
(2) Covered allied persons.
(3) Individuals detained or imprisoned for official actions taken while the individual was a covered United States person or a covered allied person, and in the case of a covered allied person, upon the request of such government.
[...]
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7432
(3) Covered allied personsThe term “covered allied persons” means military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally (including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand), or Taiwan, for so long as that government is not a party to the International Criminal Court and wishes its officials and other persons working on its behalf to be exempted from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
(4) Covered United States persons
The term “covered United States persons” means members of the Armed Forces of the United States, elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government, for so long as the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court.
Nice try, but neither Ukraine nor Russia are party to the ICC. There seems to be a distinct lack of jurisdiction.
