US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is working to “dismantle the [International Criminal Court] brick by brick”, throwing down a public gauntlet to the court that issued an arrest warrant in 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC - brick by brick, if necessary,” he said.
The reason Trump admin wants ICC destroyed is the one I explained above. It was created to prosecute leaders inconvenient for the west and was never meant to be turned on western allies like Israel. But ICC was put in an impossible situation where not going forward with the investigation would completely collapse any credibility it still had. So, after doing much hand wringing they tepidly started the case and at that point their usefulness came to an end.