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ancianita

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1. I wonder why he as a lawyer doesn't distinguish between a war crime and murder, when we're not really at war with VZ.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:31 PM
Thursday

The felon's doing a variation of what got Putin indicted under the Rome Statute of the ICC for international crimes against humanity and is under international warrant for his apprehension by Interpol. Putin attacked, unprovoked, and committed to a war of choice against Ukraine; Putin has kidnapped its children and targeted killings of its civilians.

The International Criminal Court can prosecute US individuals for these atrocities regardless of the victim's nationality, if their own state (the U.S. ) is unable or unwilling to do so. Venezuela can make its case before the ICC, and that court can find the US guilty and issue an international warrant (as they did with Putin) even if the US isn't a signatory to the ICC.

And why aren't we an ICC signatory? Has any president ever given us an answer to that? In my opinion it's because this country has held itself above international law. Under the felon the U.S. is becoming a state sponsor of terrorism.

Turns out that Venezuela itself has been under investigation by the ICC.
https://www.wola.org/analysis/combating-disinformation-venezuela-international-criminal-court/#:~:text=The%20ICC%20is%20a%20judicial,force%20on%20July%201%2C%202002.

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