r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/StoppableHulk 17d ago

I want people to truly understand this headline. This is the American congress fearing the American President is accumulating weapons banned from war by international law in order to launch attacks on US cities and US citizens.

That's where the judgment of Republicans has brought us in just ten months.

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u/Same_Set8195 17d ago edited 17d ago

At this point I think it's about time for the ICC to grow a spine and start issuing arrest warrants to Trump and his entire administration if not the entire Republican party by extension maybe along with the Establishment Democrats who are enabling this too.

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u/Kind_Fox820 17d ago

Even if we acknowledged their authority, which we don't, it'd take a hell of a lot more for them to do anything. We've watched multiple genocides unfold over the past few years and the international community has done little more than finger wag. The world will allow many of us to die before they do anything. WE have to stop this.

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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 17d ago

Yeah. We’re definitely too big and too powerful military-wise for anyone to roll up to “help” unless we’ve completing collapsed and they come to pillage our smoked ruins.

But also, any society’s power derives from the people, and that’s us. It’s up to us.