ICC Rejects US Sanctions, Urges Member States to Back Court Operations

This is a jurisdictional fight, not a legal one: Washington is using financial pressure to test whether the court's member states will absorb costs on its behalf. What matters is that the ICC's call is deliberately unspecific — it names no mechanism, which keeps capitals from having to choose between US exposure and institutional loyalty. Whether members convert rhetoric into anything operational is the open question, and it is the same test now facing every multilateral body whose funding and access run through US-controlled rails.