Nicolas Guillou

Donald Trump is furious that he lost the Nobel Peace Prize, so much so that he took the extraordinary effort today to sanction the International Criminal Court.

Why do the two matter? Well, because the person that won the Nobel Peace Prize today was a judge on the International Criminal Court.

Right now, the International Criminal Court is moving closer to investigating the President of the United States of America and other American citizens, from ICE agents to the Secretary of Defense, for possible war crimes.

Efforts to try to prosecute, efforts to try to go after Americans is and will be on the rise one day.

We note with appreciation the work undertaken by the Court to prepare for such measures so that the Court can continue to fulfill its mandate under the Rome Statute, and we underline our unwavering support in enabling the Court in doing so.

Nevertheless, if put into effect, these sanctions will have a significant impact on the Court's work, its dedicated staff, and their families.

They work every day to bring those accused of the most serious international crimes to justice and to support their victims." Now, why would the Trump administration do this today? Well, because the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was announced this morning, Nabeel Pelay, was a former International Criminal Court judge.

She fought against human rights abuses, against genocide her entire career, still fights to this day, working on an international tribunal concerning Myanmar's genocide allegations.

And besides, uh, these questions about sovereignty, it's, uh-- it goes a little bit up and down in the market, and it depends of the, of the news, of the geopolitics and so on.

And for instance, uh, maybe you, you remember that, but a couple of months ago, there was, uh, this, uh, signal with, uh, uh, the, this, uh, judge, a French judge, uh, whose name is Nicolas Guillou, whose, uh, means of payment have been blocked, uh, by the US.

And so he's a guy in Europe who cannot pay anymore with Visa and Mastercard because of a US sanction about him.

And so, uh, that, that single, I mean, that single news has bring back sovereignty a lot into every conversation.