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Several International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have been unable to access their bank accounts or receive routine salary payments and financial transfers due to financial blockages triggered by United States sanctions. In the country where they live
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The United States has never recognized the jurisprudence of ICC anyways. So to the United States these judges are just regular foreigners making decisions they don’t like. Sanctions are an appropriate tool for the United States to meddle in foreign affairs anyways. For countries that support ICC, avoiding United States is also appropriate. Personally I don’t really have much faith in the ICC; its premise is flawed since great powers will never be deferential to a foreign court system anyways.
I would like to thank the US for single handedly killing the EU cashless society plans. I would like to request the US sanctions all members of the EU parliament asap.
> In the country where they live When people outsource everything this is what happens
Frankly I think this is a good bit of hormesis for European countries. It's critical that we have domestic payment infrastructure.
It would be appropriate to mention what exactly the ICC judges were punished for. If it didn't come with such a high karma risk, I would have mentioned it myself. Hope that curious will find out on their own accord.