Rubio announces campaign to 'dismantle' International Criminal Court

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/13/rubio-campaign-dismantle-international-criminal-court/4881783965041/

by Bondi_Blue • 9 days ago

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lyu072822• 9 days ago

The loyalty US politicians have towards Israel is mindblowing, the way the managed to hollow out the American political system from inside-out is incredible. The ICC, the great weapon of western imperialism against the global south, they now want to destroy? It's stretching the limits of my incongruity, it's a pressure campaign to put it back in its place at most.

solumunus3• 9 days ago

I’m in the UK. There are a lot of people who are voting purely on the issue of Israel. For all this time I’ve found that to be quite ridiculous, we have enough problems here so why would a conflict we have little involvement in be your primary issue?

I’m starting to see a justification for this view that’s less about support for Palestine. It’s absolutely unacceptable that our governments are being infiltrated and manipulated by foreign powers (Israel). The grip they have over almost the entire political spectrum has become so clear, and it’s genuinely terrifying. It’s also very obvious, more obvious in the UK, that the support is not ideological - it’s corruption, coercion, manipulation.

I think I’m potentially there now, I simply cannot vote for you if you’ve been corrupted by Israel.

Grombobulous• 9 days ago

What’s so mind blowing about it is that this would make a ton of sense if it was a big superpower like China or even a greatly declined one like Russia.

But, no, it’s “some random country” with a population smaller than Ohio that’s 5x smaller in land mass than Ohio.

Basically if you removed the entire greater Cleveland area from Ohio you’d get the population of Israel.

The global influence per capita is astounding.

throw56822• 7 days ago

There are a lot of people who are voting purely on the issue of Israel

In the most recent elections many Green party members ran specifically on the pro-Palestine side of the issue.

And while Israel is a small country, the world population of pro-Palestinians, and its influx and influence on the UK is not small. So these are, at least in part, proxy votes on other issues.

watwut• 9 days ago

US is coming war crimes on their own right. Hegseth is openly proud of them.

There is this ever going fiction that American army are these pristine pro-democracy souls that only foreign influence can break. That is just wrong.

lyu072822• 8 days ago

But its like they are now more invested in Israel than they are to the US imperial death machine itself even. Like Bush/Obama felt more dedicated to the death march in Iraq/Libya "for the empire", like the motivation of their slaughter was extraction and exploitation of land, but now its not exactly clear what the empire has to benefit from supporting every whim of some random ethnosupremacist ethnic cleansing' lunatics, seems corrupt, not ideological.

theplumber• 9 days ago

I think the oil from the Middle East is the reason why Israel is so important (for the U.S at least). As the transition from oil takes place Israel will become irrelevant along with most of the Middle East. I mean irrelevant compared to today’s geopolitical role.

Rubio announces campaign to 'dismantle' International Criminal Court

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