Calling 70 countries a 'few' is a total distortion of reality. Beyond the 41 nations that never signed, another 29 signed but explicitly refused to ratify or pulled out—including the US, India, China, Russia, Indonesia, and Israel. That isn't a 'few rogue nations'; that is 70 sovereign states representing over 60% of humanity refusing to hand their constitutional rights over to an unelected foreign tribunal. Rejecting the ICC is a matter of basic international law, not avoiding accountability. Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a treaty cannot create legal obligations or grant authority over non-signatory nations without their consent. The ICC’s attempt to bypass this by claiming a member state can "delegate" jurisdiction over foreign citizens whose home governments refused the treaty is a direct violation of international law and national sovereignty. For sovereign democracies, handing citizens over to an unelected international tribunal violates their own constitutions. Democratic nations, like the USA, India etc, maintain independent judiciaries and military court-martial systems to hold their own people accountable under their own laws. Submitting citizens to foreign judges who answer to no national constitution or electorate isn't "upholding the rule of law"—it is stripping citizens of their basic constitutional protections.
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