Comment by dragonwriter

> The ICC somehow managed to create an institution even more useless than the UN.

Its been very useful at doing the same thing the ad hoc international war crimes tribunals that preceded it did but with greater regularity and without as much spinup/winddown costs for each conflict they address.

> The very concept of an International Criminal Court, operating in some idealistic moral space above war and diplomacy,

That's not its concept or where it operates, though.

> If everyone agreed to arbitrate world matters in the ICC, why even have militaries?

I think you’ve confused the ICC with the ICJ or the UN itself. The ICC does not exist to arbitrate disputes between nations in place of settling them by war.