Just more naked demonstration of the need for digital sovereignty.

In payment systems, in emails, in data storage, in cloud, in desktop software, in encryption, messaging, etc. If you have a dependency with any American company, you are not sovereign.

This is not easy, but if you are not already taking steps forward you are behind.

"The ICC has never indicted or even issued an arrest warrant for a US citizen". They have, however, issued warrants for Russian war crimes in Ukraine. All that needs to be said

Gee, I can't imagine why the ICC would target so many US citizens for war crimes...

Snowflake

Then every member state of the ICC (almost the entire world) should impose sanctions on the US in return. Enough is enough.

Terrorist country.

Circling the drain. FFS.

I wonder what'll happen when Trumps term ends and he tries to leave the U.S.

Unless the U.S. deal with them first.

Pretty much an admission that the American Administration is the Mob.

All the ICC has to do is to issue international arrest warrants, with extradition and exfiltration permit avowed, for whichever executives apply the sanctions.

We know who the criminal is

Jesus H. Christ.

They are afraid in the US government. Afraid is good.

Lucifer H Satan on a ringpop!

All because Donny didn’t get the Nobel peace prize…back to back FIFA peace prize winner!

"You don't start nothing, there won't be nothing!"

Starting next April, it will be prohibited for any US citizens, companies, or organizations to conduct business with the ICC. Organizations outside the US that collaborate with the court also face the threat of sanctions.

One possible consequence is that ICC staff salaries can no longer be paid. "The ICC holds its bank account with ABN Amro," says De Hoon. "It is highly questionable whether the bank can circumvent these sanctions."

Once the sanctions take effect, staff members will no longer be able to use US-made software. For instance, they would be unable to send emails to one another via Microsoft, and documents—such as investigative materials—could not be stored on US servers.

Previous sanctions imposed by the US government applied only to individual prosecutors and judges; now, the court itself is being targeted as an institution. The ICC had already begun migrating its IT systems in response to those earlier sanctions, but the progress of this process remains unclear. "These systems are so complex that I wonder if it can be done by April," says De Hoon. International organizations

translated from: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2634366-amerikaanse-sancties-mokerslag-voor-internationaal-strafhof-wat-doet-nederland

Israel will be pleased.

What class of people hate criminal courts, if you need a clue it starts with the letter criminals.

time for EU independence. If google, microsoft, amazon, visa/mastercard & co were ordered to stop operations in Europe, it would be a major disaster

Shouldn't that be the other way around?