The former national security advisor said he considered the International Criminal Court “fundamentally illegitimate”
Former US national security advisor John Bolton has come out against the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to indict Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the court “fundamentally illegitimate.”
“I believe and have for many years [that] the International Criminal Court is fundamentally illegitimate,” Bolton told Sky News on Monday, adding that its arrest warrant for Putin is “not something that the United States should cooperate with.”
“It’s a very dangerous institution,” he continued. “It is an exercise of governmental power in a vacuum without any constitutional framework to restrain it.”
The Court’s pre-trial Chamber issued a warrant on Friday for the arrest of Putin and Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the “unlawful deportation” of children from…