On Monday Rubio’s team issued a statement announcing ‘a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to US sovereignty.’ The campaign ‘will feature a whole-of-government response to systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate, target American servicemen or officials, or otherwise threaten American sovereignty.’
In other words, if you are in the US government and committing war crimes, aiding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, or facilitating crimes against humanity, you won’t see a jail cell even if the evidence against you is overwhelming.
If Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or the smarter-than-Trump Iranian leadership put out a statement such as this, western politicians, media and commentators would be outraged. They would fulminate about universal human rights and that China, Iran and Russia are rogue states. But because this is Washington, the response is muted at best in Paris, London, Berlin and don’t forget Canberra…
In Tehran, Beijing and Moscow they rightly call out the double standards of the west and we take no notice. But we should because the Trump Administration is committed to ensuring that its military can kill civilians, bomb hospitals, abuse women and children and starve the population if that fits the bill.