To any same person this is way worse than Trump trying to shake down Zelensky. This is completely destroying international law and the rules based order. If this goes through nobody will arrest Putin anymore.

I wonder if this selective enforcement is a sign of the death of the icc’s legitimacy; why should anyone else follow their legal obligations to the icc if its most capable members won’t?

I think Merz should get a little heart tattoo just below his landing strip.