Youre not wrong, which is why the US is not a member of the Rome Charter, therefore no Americans can be charged by the ICC. The US was one of only seven countries – along with China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and Yemen – that voted against the Rome Statute. US President Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute in 2000 but did not submit the treaty to the Senate for ratification. In 2002, President George W. Bush effectively “unsigned” the treaty, sending a note to the United Nations secretary-general that the US no longer intended to ratify the treaty and that it did not have any obligations toward it.
You can go on the ICC website yourself and see the current and pending cases. While I don't see Nuremburg style hearings for Putin and his cronies, its an important, if not just symbolic process to document and preserve evidence of crimes against humanity.
If the ICC had any pull, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell would have spent the rest of their lives behind bars, just saying.
Youre not wrong, which is why the US is not a member of the Rome Charter, therefore no Americans can be charged by the ICC. The US was one of only seven countries – along with China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, and Yemen – that voted against the Rome Statute. US President Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute in 2000 but did not submit the treaty to the Senate for ratification. In 2002, President George W. Bush effectively “unsigned” the treaty, sending a note to the United Nations secretary-general that the US no longer intended to ratify the treaty and that it did not have any obligations toward it.
You can go on the ICC website yourself and see the current and pending cases. While I don't see Nuremburg style hearings for Putin and his cronies, its an important, if not just symbolic process to document and preserve evidence of crimes against humanity.