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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1m

However, other traditional allies are backing the court in view of the new sanctions: Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada and Japan published a joint statement rejecting the punitive measures. 17/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1m

Trump's pressure has so far had limited success. Several countries have recently initiated their withdrawal from the court, including Venezuela and Chad. 16/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 2m

After the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024, he tightened it significantly. 15/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 2m

Donald Trump is now actively fighting the court, driven by a mixture of personal insult and the conviction that the US president is the authoritative authority of humanity. His crusade dates back to his first term in office. 14/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 3m

But after the terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda on the USA on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, Clinton's successor George W. Bush withdrew the American signature in 2002. 13/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 3m

It does not have its own police force that could execute its arrest warrants. 125 states have signed the corresponding treaty, the Rome Statute of 1998. The USA, like China and Russia, is not one of them. President Bill Clinton had initially signed the Rome Statute in 2000. 12/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 3m

The ICC wants to show that it is more than a dysfunctional souvenir from the post-war West. It lives on the ideal that a superior global justice system is possible. For this, however, it is dependent on the cooperation of its signatory states. 11/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 4m

Duterte had waged a brutal "war on drugs" in his home country, in which, according to estimates by human rights activists, up to 30,000 people were killed extraordinarily. In May 2027, a trial against the alleged militia supervisor Khaled El Hishri from Libya is also scheduled to begin. 10/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 4m

The court is also under pressure to prove its effectiveness. A long-awaited trial against Philippine ex-president Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to begin in The Hague at the end of November. 9/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 5m

The ICC is in a multiple crisis. In addition to the attacks on its legitimacy, there are personnel scandals. In July, chief prosecutor Karim Khan was removed from office after allegations of sexual assault, he had already been suspended since 2025. 8/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 6m

"It is an attack on the victims of mass crimes who have waited for years, sometimes decades, for those responsible to be held accountable." On the court's website, a statement said: "No one should be punished for serving the cause of justice." History will judge this moment. 7/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 6m

The move by the US government is a historically unique event, said court president Tomoko Akane in a video message on Friday. The Japanese woman had already been sanctioned by the Trump administration in August. 6/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 7m

The economic sanctions are aimed at obstructing the day-to-day work of the Court: All companies that have business relations with the ICC are now threatened with penalties by the US government. 5/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 7m

So far, however, they have only sanctioned individual judges and other staff members of the court, never the entire institution. As of this Friday, the International Criminal Court has been on the same US sanctions list as the Mexican Sinaloa cartel or the Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi. 4/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 8m

"Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC." The new sanctions are unprecedented in their breadth. Washington has a long, conflict-ridden history with the ICC that extends beyond Trump's terms in office. 3/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 9m

Just hours after Pillay's honor, Rubio announced new sanctions, which had probably been prepared for some time. "We will ban transactions with this rogue court, depriving it of its resources and paralyzing its ability to take action against us," he said in a video message. 2/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 11m

Far-reaching US sanctions World Criminal Court is now on same U.S. list as Sinaloa cartel The US is tightening its sanctions against the ICC. In the future, companies that have business relations with the court in The Hague will also be affected. Is the institution on the verge of collapse? 1/

spiegel.de

(S+) US-Sanktionen gegen IStGH: Donald Trump gegen das Weltstrafgericht

Die USA verschärfen ihre Sanktionen gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof. Betroffen sollen künftig auch Unternehmen sein, die Geschäftsbeziehungen mit dem Gericht in Den Haag haben. Steht die In...

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Patrick* Neithard @patrickneithard.eurosky.social · 30m

Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 39m

Interesting trick to reveal info about secret votes 👇🏼 Journalists asked the members of parlament about their votes ex post and separately, and in one party, too many claimed to have abstained. (There were fewer abstentions overall. No hiding behind small numbers.) www.n-tv.de/politik/Beri...

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Berichte widerlegen Aussagen von CDU-Abgeordneten in Sachsen-Anhalt

Auch Tage nach der Wahl von AfD-Politiker Rausch zum Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt köchelt die Gerüchteküche, woher die Ja-Stimmen kamen. Zwei Berichte zeigen nun, dass deutlich mehr CDU-Polit...

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Vova – the diminutive of Vladimir – is now associated with the plague in a literal and no longer figurative sense. As jokes on social networks, the old hit is likely to soon be classified as extremist and a discrediting of the Russian president. 19/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The irony is that more than 20 years ago, the song was understood as a hymn of praise to the young, energetic Russian president. Today, the same hit takes on the opposite meaning. 18/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The song was popular in the noughties, when Vladimir Putin had just become president. The Russian word "Tschuma", meaning plague, has a second meaning in colloquial language. It refers to something great, something that triggers enthusiasm. 17/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile, the plague has become a veritable pop culture phenomenon in Russia. Albert Camus' novel "The Plague" is back at the top of the bestseller lists. And influencers and users of social networks have rediscovered an old hit: "Vova-Tschuma". 16/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

However, after the cases in which the nerve agent Novichok was used to assassinate political opponents, hardly anyone doubts that the Kremlin is prepared to use chemical weapons. The suspicion that it could also develop or use biological weapons does not seem far-fetched against this background. 15/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Interestingly, my sources in Moscow are convinced that this is the cause of what happened and that is why the Russian authorities are so feverishly trying to keep all the details secret. 14/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The problem is not the plague, but the fact that it is being talked about. Especially since suspicions have now arisen that Russia could develop biological weapons in a secret laboratory in Siberia. 13/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

His dismissal would make all other Russian officials aware of what their most important task is: not to prevent disasters, but to prevent information about these disasters from reaching the public. 12/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

According to the reports, he is threatened with dismissal because of the current scandal. If these reports are confirmed, it would be obvious what his fault is: not that he allowed a dangerous disease to spread, but that he failed to keep the information about it secret. 11/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

And now the plague. Amazingly, if the reports of various Telegram channels are to be believed, the authorities have already identified a culprit to be punished: Anatoly Seryshev, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian president in the Siberian Federal District. 10/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

According to independent experts, there were many indications of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. To date, however, the causes have not been fully revealed. 9/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Reports appeared in Telegram channels that a meeting was held in the Kremlin about Siberia constantly making negative headlines. Earlier this year, there were reports of the mass culling of livestock in the Novosibirsk region. 8/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The plague jokes are met with an almost complete lack of information about the events in the Irkutsk region and increasingly strict state censorship. All this is reminiscent of the Soviet tradition of covering up disasters. Chernobyl, for example. 7/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The basic mood of all these jokes can be summarized as follows: Until recently, it was believed that the situation in Russia was already so bad that it could not get worse. Now it turns out that it can be done. Now we also have the plague. 6/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

For example, there is a video in which Putin plays the computer game "Civilization" and accidentally infects Russia with plague. Or a video of a burning tanker on Black Sea coast near Sochi: Internet users comment that the cloud of smoke is reminiscent of the figure of a medieval plague doctor 5/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

The news of the appearance of the plague in the Irkutsk region, in Siberia, was one of the most important events of the past week, not only in Russia. But probably nowhere is this news received with so much irony as in Russia. New plague memes are added every day. 4/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

This description of 16th-century Russia applies surprisingly accurately to today's reality and is currently circulating as a joke on Russian-language Internet. Oprichnina was the name given to system of rule and repression under Ivan the Terrible, which was notorious for its cruelty and brutality 3/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

People walk the streets, people die of the plague, bears roam the cities, foreign goods have to be transported through Bukhara and the steppe, and the Oprichnina forms the upper class. 2/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Biological weapons in Russia? The problem is not the plague – but that people are talking about it In the Kremlin, a culprit for possible plague outbreak in Siberia is already to be determined. He is not to be punished because the disease spread. But because the news of it reached the outside. 1/

spiegel.de

(S+) Meinung: Pest in Russland: Warum der Kreml die Nachricht fürchtet

Im Kreml soll bereits ein Schuldiger für den möglichen Pestausbruch in Sibirien feststehen. Bestraft werden soll er nicht, weil die Krankheit sich ausbreitete. Sondern weil die Nachricht davon nach dr...

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

In his campaign speech in Syracuse, New York, Trump called Pillay a "mysterious person." "I've never heard of that person," he said. No one has. 5/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Addressing Norway, Trump said: "The fact that they did not award the Nobel Peace Prize to the United States of America is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are robbing our country." 4/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

He had helped prevent wars between North and South Korea, Japan and North Korea, and China and Taiwan, he said, without citing any evidence. "The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democratic and real enemies of civilization." 3/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has once again complained that he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He described the decision of Nobel Prize Committee on Friday as disgraceful and embarrassing. "This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and on those people who made such a shameful and embarrassing decision" 2/

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 1h

Award for Navi Pillay US President attacks Nobel Peace Prize Committee and Norway If it were up to Donald Trump, he would have been honored with the Nobel Peace Prize long ago. The US president has now reacted to the latest decision of the Nobel Prize Committee with wild insults. 1/

spiegel.de

Donald Trump attackiert Friedensnobelpreiskomitee und Norwegen

Würde es nach Donald Trump gehen, dann wäre er längst mit dem Friedensnobelpreis geehrt worden. Auf die jüngste Entscheidung des Nobelpreiskomitees reagierte der US-Präsident jetzt mit wüsten Beschimp...

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 4h

I am German and I heard about the deal. Betraying the free world. Betraying the Ukrainian people fighting for their lives. Moving directly to Putin and building an unholy alliance, to buy votes, to stay in power.

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 5h

Poschardt macht in einem Interview von der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Werbung für Volker Zierke und den Jungeuropa Verlag. Er sieht kein Problem, dass der Verlag von einem Rechtsextremen betrieben wird. Und Zierke gut in dieses Feld passt. Mich macht das echt fassunglos. Eigentlich nicht.

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 5h

I am German and I hope, this will bring a change. We saw in Saxony Anhalt a month ago also a massive rise in people voting, but they decided to give their vote the right-extremists. My fingers are crossed, that you are not facing the same fate like we did. Vote them out!!

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

Shit! 😳 Let’s make this nationwide.

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Patrick* Neithard @patrickneithard.eurosky.social · 6h

How to calculate Trump’s divine, witch-huntish over-underestimated genius, and somehow also the reason behind the lifting of US sanctions /s for sarcasm

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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe it will give them satisfaction, who knows. But when the shots have died down, doubt may germinate for a brief moment. Is this really the country we want to live in? 4/

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