Israel will split the western alliance

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1. SS: The author argues that Israel is being the wedge that separates the EU–which is generally respecting the current rule of law system–from the US. The EU has generally agreed to uphold the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and generally have supported the ICC and international order. In contrast, the US is likely to sanction the Court and potentially even the supporters of the Court. This split will dramatically weaken any impacts the West can have on other violations of the international order, like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

2. It’s a chicken and egg thing. US led the building of liberal democratic institutions to cement it’s dominance, the institutions in turn lend legitimacy to US hegemony. Just as the Catholic church outlive the imperium that spawn it’s mass adoption and transformation from one fringe religious movement among many to spiritual IRS of an empire, the liberal democratic ideal has intrinsic value and may yet outlive it’s progenitor.

3. Will it? Will the EU choose a court system with zero actual power over alliance with the largest economy in the world and greatest military in human history all to please antisemetic nations with zero military power and feeble economies?

   At worst they privately tell Netanyahu not to travel to their countries. He’s old and nearing the end of his career, and can still freely travel to the US if needed.

   I don’t remember anyone really faulting Mongolia for not arresting Putin. No one is going to fault European nations for not carrying out an act of war against a nuclear armed nation that is a nominal ally.

4. F*** the ICC, UN, and the EU.

5. “reverting to a world where great powers and their clients act with impunity”

   Author is living in dreamland and thinks that great powers and their clients don’t already act with impunity.

6. If only “Western alliance” members could rise up above the Iranian, Qatari, Russian and Chinese propaganda efforts so common all over the place, and realize that Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan are simply the front lines of progress in this new type of war against aggressive violent imperialism.

   They will get it eventually and unite. The question is how compromised their own countries will get before they wise up.

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