Paul Handley — US threatens to arrest ICC judges who probe war crimes

"We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the US financial system, and we will prosecute them in the US criminal system," Bolton said.

"We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans."

This is the perfect example of a dominance-submission model that is characteristic of the instinctual behavior of brutes contrasted starkly with the rationality characteristic of human beings, especially in those that subscribe to Western liberalism and Western values. 

This is a throw-back in term of evolutionary theory, a type of atavism.

Here John Bolton, the national security advisor who is not elected and not accountable to anyone but the president, is speaking for the United States. This suggests the question, who actually is POTUS now anyway?

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US threatens to arrest ICC judges who probe war crimes
Paul Handley, AFP

UPDATE:

The Hague-based court said it was an independent and impartial institution with the backing of 123 countries.
“The ICC, as a court of law, will continue to do its work undeterred, in accordance with those principles and the overarching idea of the rule of law,” it said in a statement.

Reuters

International court says it is undeterred after Bolton threatens U.S. sanctions

"France, with its European partners, supports the International Criminal Court, both in its budgetary contribution and in its cooperation with it," Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said in a statement.

"The court must be able to act and exercise its prerogatives without hindrance, independently and impartially, within the legal framework defined by the Rome Statute," it said....

Business Insider

After Trump threats, France stands by International Criminal Court