⚖️ THE ICC'S LEGITIMACY CRISIS: A Court That Answers to Power

From limited membership to US sanctions, from immunity disputes to selective justice – the International Criminal Court is facing a reckoning.

· 🌍 125 members – but not the powerful. China, India, the US, and Russia are not members.

· 🇺🇸 Washington sanctions the Court. Trump signed Executive Order 14203 targeting ICC officials, while demanding changes to shield US officials.

· ⚖️ Immunity for heads of state? Al-Bashir, Putin, and Netanyahu cases expose the gap between legal rules and sovereignty.

· 🌍 Global South withdraws. Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso called the ICC a "neocolonial instrument of pressure" and pulled out.

· 🇺🇦🇮🇱 Selective justice? Critics point to Ukraine and Israel cases – while Western allies escape scrutiny.

👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-legitimacy-crisis-of-the-international

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