What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Grey Fox]

The trifecta is almost complete, who will it be?

[DGuller]

Russia dipping into its Novichok stocks again? 

[grumbler]

The trifecta is almost complete, who will it be?

I know who we all hope it will be.

[HVC]

The trifecta is almost complete, who will it be?

I know who we all hope it will be.

History is rarely that kind.

[Grey Fox]

There are hilarious choices like any of the younger people.

[DGuller]

Looks like we need to postpone our anticipation of who'll be the third one, because the second one has a longer road ahead of him than we thought.

[jimmy olsen]

Shockingly Mitch seems alive. Picture posted with today's newspaper in it like a ransom request.

But in this day and age with AI, I want to see a live TV interview with him.

[Tonitrus]

Nowadays, there's probably always going to be a "Putin is dead..." suspicion to all of these cases.

[Syt]

More from Rubio.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/13/politics/rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court

Rubio vows to 'dismantle' International Criminal Court

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday vowed to "dismantle" the International Criminal Court and urged other countries to join the effort as the Trump administration significantly escalates its campaign against the global institution.

Rubio accused the ICC of "waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles," but with "the force of so-called international law."

The administration's ire against the ICC goes back to President Donald Trump's first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan. The second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.

However, the State Department-led, "whole-of-government campaign" to dismantle the ICC is a significant escalation, particularly as it seeks to pressure countries around the world to join and threatens potential cuts to US assistance for those who don't.

"Nations that refuse to reject the ICC's false authority while relying on US assistance are likely to come under increased scrutiny," a State Department official said Monday.

"Using all the tools at our government's disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary," Rubio wrote in a separate piece in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. Those tools include possible travel bans, visa revocations, and increased sanctions, the State Department official said.

The official said that countries "that partner with US law enforcement, host a US military presence, or benefit from the broader US security umbrella are being called upon to reject the ICC's purported authority to prosecute American officials and servicemen," the official said.

"We will watch with interest which nations join ranks with us against this threat to Americans who are willing to risk their lives to protect others," they noted.

Top officials, including the secretary, deputy secretary, and US ambassadors, "are calling countries as part of a campaign to diplomatically isolate the International Criminal Court and ensure it cannot target Americans," the official said.

The calls are meant to persuade countries who are party to the ICC to withdraw from it "and cut off any financial support to the court," they said.

CNN has reached out to the ICC for comment.

The administration is also calling on nations that are not parties to the court, like the United States, "to leverage their diplomatic networks to take similar action alongside us."

In his opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio accused the ICC of being "backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S."

Rubio rejected allegations by outside organizations that the administration's deportations to El Salvador and its deadly boat strikes on alleged narco-terrorists had violated international law and rebuffed a call by one organization for the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the US in Iran, but he claimed that such actions could risk investigation by the court.

[Razgovory]

I do wonder how many people would support putting Obama and other NATO leaders on trial for war crimes.

[crazy canuck]

Anything to prevent the ICC from prosecuting Israel leaders for the work crimes they have commit committed

[Razgovory]

Anything to prevent the ICC from prosecuting Israel leaders for the work crimes they have commit committed

If ICC investigators found evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan, you'd support the arrest of NATO leaders, right?  Also maybe Zelenskyy for attacks against civilian targets?

[Sheilbh]

Just as an aside there have been inquiries into unlawful killings in Afghanistan by special forces and big national scandals over it in Australia and the UK which are testing the applicability of domestic war crimes rules.

The whole "legacy" issue of trials for soldiers over unlawful killings during the Troubles is one of the most contentious issues in Northern Ireland (and between UK and Ireland) - it was also one of the areas of most constructive ambiguity in the Good Friday Agreement to the extent where it doesn't really say anything about it precisely because it could be so contentious. I don't know about the ICC or leaders but I think at the level of the actual soldiers it is/can be a very difficult issue.

[The Minsky Moment]

I'm in favor of crimes being prosecuted.  Is that controversial?

[Razgovory]

I heard about the thing in Australia.  I imagine the Taliban officials can find witnesses to testify other Coalition forces.