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[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

People’s take on this stuff always seems so naive to me. All war ever can be viewed as an attempt to arrest the leader of another group for “crimes”. When you get arrested… that means you lost the war. Winning a war means you didn’t get arrested.

The ICC is such a silly stupid waste of human attention. It’s like an idea that children came up with after watching Star Trek. It has no utility whatsoever for our species. We fight, we have winners and losers. If you start a fight with somebody stronger than you, you are gonna have a bad time. If you start a fight with someone weaker than you, others will think you are dishonorable. That doesn’t mean you get arrested.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

This interpretation is a vague apologia for war crimes. This line of thinking means the Nuremberg Trials were a complete waste of time and the Nazis should not be held accountable.

[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No, it means they were ONLY held accountable because they lost the war.

Nobody prosecuted Churchill for Dresden

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Israel is losing?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

ICC signatories have to arrest anyone with a warrant against them if they visit that country. That severely limits the number of state visits Netanyahu and others with warrants against them can make. That's not a minor thing. Big deals are made during state visits.

[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Anybody who tries to arrest him will be at war with Israel and probably the US and probably a lot of other nations. They will break their treaty with ICC before they start that war and everyone fucking knows it. Why do we pretend?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

And yet this stopped Putin from going to South Africa.

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