US sanctions International Criminal Court judges for being morally sound

© 2025 Peter Free

 

07 June 2025

 

 

Might as well indelibly stamp the word . . .

 

. . .  'Satanic' on our American foreheads.

 

Evil, stupidity and eventual economic self-destruction — all rolled into one:

 

 

On 5 June, the US government imposed sanctions on four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges over their role in investigations into war crimes by US and Israeli forces.

 

The US State Department said the sanctions freeze any assets the judges hold in the country and ban them from any transactions involving US citizens or institutions, cutting them off from the US financial and legal system.

 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions in a written statement, accusing the ICC of overstepping its authority and threatening the sovereignty of the US and Israel.

 

The judges targeted are Solomy Balungi Bossa, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza, Reine Alapini Gansou, and Beti Hohler.

 

According to the State Department, Bossa and Carranza were sanctioned for approving a 2020 investigation into alleged war crimes by US troops and CIA officers in Afghanistan and secret prisons.

 

Alapini Gansou and Hohler were targeted for their involvement in issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024, with charges including starvation and attacking civilians in Gaza.

 

Less than three months later, on 13 February 2025, the US sanctioned ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, freezing his assets and banning him from entering the country.

 

On 29 April, ICC judges issued a gag order on Khan, barring him from publicizing any new arrest warrant applications in the Palestine case.

 

Trump escalated the campaign after returning to office in January 2025. Just days in, he signed an executive order threatening sanctions against anyone involved in ICC investigations related to US or Israeli war crimes.

 

© 2025 News Desk, Washington sanctions ICC judges over Gaza genocide probe, The Cradle (06 June 2025)

 

 

The moral? — And so, the world's arguably most evilly led . . .

 

. . . and controlled nation continues on its path to becoming universally discredited by sane people, worldwide.

 

And does anyone with a functioning brain think that incessantly sanctioning whomevers and whatevers is going to lend credence to our (once United States-benefiting) global economic system?

 

How self-destructively asinine can we get?

 

Marco Rubio, by the way, is a superb example of Hannah Arendt's banality of evil.

 

We could turn that walking-talking Squish Puppet into a meme.