Tom Cotton, whose top donors include AIPAC
I would honestly like to see how that would pan out. Obviously this is just a clueless senator pulling things out of his ass for political points, but the worldwide scandal of a US military incursion against an international court of law inside a NATO country would have massive repercussions. It would destabilize US partnerships, diplomacy and it would tarnish US standing even more than it already has been for the last 20 years. Every US opponent country would love for this to happen. This would definitely not go well with EU countries, most of which already said they would stand by the ICC’s decision. Arab countries would turn on the US and third world countries probably would too, as the ICC case is massively popular with both those two parties.
I doubt it would spark a war between the US and the EU, but it would certainly sour relationships real damn quick.
I don’t think the US will ever need to actually do it when the threat is enough to keep its junior partners in line.
I have to say i don’t actually believe Europeans are scared of this sort of threats. We know what’s at stake for the US here. It would take a lunatic to actually do anything of this sort. Yeah, it would be bad for us, but it would be awful for the US.
On the other hand, a lunatic is just what the US has just elected, so i guess we’ll just have to see how this shakes out.
Earlier this year, when republican senators started threatening EU countries with sanctions for rejecting Israel policy, everyone kind of just shrugged it off. There wasn’t any real concern. Everyone was mostly going like, ok let them do it then. I’m feeling a sort of exhaustion from US drama in the political atmosphere around here.
