I genuinely believe that conservatives hate the ICC because they know that the US would have to answer for all its crimes if the ICC had power over the US.

Anyhow the world is changing very quickly and nowadays not doing business with the united states or not using the dollar, is less and less of a problem.

While I agree on the surface, these sanctions also include any American companies. You can’t use most email providers, because most are based in the US. You can’t use any debit or credit cards, because MasterCard and Visa are both American companies that will block your access. You can’t use any cloud storage providers, because they’re all American. You can’t have a Google account for your phone. You can’t even use a Microsoft account to log into your Windows PC.

And sure, lemmings will say that all of those are good things. We’re happy in our little “self-host everything, delete all the cloud accounts, avoid being tracked by any means possible, etc” bubble. But the average person barely even knows how to open a web browser, and panics when their password needs to be reset.

It basically forces you to live as a Luddite, because the vast majority of the internet, modern banking, etc will (at least tangentially) touch American commerce in some way. And the average person isn’t even close to being well-enough prepared for that kind of upheaval.

Is he afraid he could become the next target of an investigation/warrant of the ICC?

Not likely. The ICC rarely targets government officials from rich/Western countries, because it knows perfectly well how that'll turn out.

Also, the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, meaning the US is under no obligation to act on warrants or investigations issued by the ICC.

He would have to step foot in a country that is, and one that respects its obligations towards the ICC.

No, he's not afraid of that because the US is not a party of the ICC and the American Service Members Protection act prohibits US courts, agencies, entities of state or local government from cooperating with the ICC and further

The President is authorized to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.

The definitions of the people described in subsection b are:

3. COVERED ALLIED PERSONS.—The term ‘‘covered allied persons’’ means military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally (including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand), or Taiwan, for so long as that government is not a party to the Inter-national Criminal Court and wishes its officials and other persons working on its behalf to be exempted from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

(4) COVERED UNITED STATES PERSONS.—The term ‘‘covered United States persons’’ means members of the Armed Forces of the United States, elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government, for so long as the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court.

Anyone who assisted the investigation or arrest by supplying information or funding would be breaking US law.

Unfortunately it very often leads to doing more business with China and the Won, which is very much a growing problem.

The approach towards the Netanyahu warrant is no change to US policy and law which explicitly lists Israeli government officials as an "covered allied person" who the US can use "all means necessary" to free from detainment or imprisonment by the ICC. It prohibits "support" of the ICC which includes provision of services.

So that predated Trump by quite a bit.

honestly, he is so dumb they may have just buttered him up a bit

What balls?

It only just registered in the imbecile paedophiles, ahem, 'brain'.

Probably got lost in the spam filter waiting for approval at the evil league of evil.

"And that's why today I've put a 5000% tariff on the ICC. Nasty people. And they are banned from my press conferences too."

He's already sanctioning a number of ICC judges, apparently. US companies are legally barred from providing them any services, which has more impact than you might initially expect.

They can easily add him and Hegseth, for the crime of indiscriminately attacking boats.

We have literal days out till the next voting cycle, please let's just do everything in our power to ensure everyone is properly registered, especially people in states without grace period registration like Mississippi and Alabama. Thank you for taking the time in understanding that most red states are actually just rigged purple states who make it as hard to vote as possible in order to suppress voter turnout. We can beat fascism, we just have to have more group coordination, less splitting over certain issues, and remember that if we all vote midterms all the time eventually more citizens will start taking every election seriously.

Always was.

Non members of the ICC still practice slavery as well. One prominent non-member in particular has slavery enshrined in the 13th amendment to its constitution in fact.

Which means it shouldn't be able to do anything to hold Israel accountable for crimes committed by the country of its leaders?

Which ones? Name and shame!

Members of the U.N. have openly fascist governments

hearing americans continue to insist that we've flawed defender of the democracy-and-freedom^TM^ is difficult to understand when glaring contradictions like this exist.