The United States on Monday launched a sweeping campaign to “dismantle the threat” posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty.
The actions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced, will feature “a whole-of-government response” to disable the ICC’s ability to target American servicemen or officials.
Rubio declared that the ICC presents “an intolerable threat” by claiming the authority to prosecute and imprison American servicemen and officials operating on behalf of U.S. national interests.
“Americans never signed up for this,” the top diplomat noted. “All American presidents since the ICC’s ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans.”
The Trump Administration recalled that the ICC previously opened an investigation into American servicemembers and intelligence officers and has since refused to close the cases.
Washington says the ICC seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter and a supranational enforcement arm of
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