the international criminal court. russia is not a member of the international criminal court and the united states isn t either, for that matter. so what? what does that mean? the answer is it doesn t matter. the international criminal court has full jurisdiction over ukraine in this matter for the investigation. 39 countries referred it to the icc legitimately. when he s indicted and when the generals are indicted, the sanctions that have been imposed upon russia, the most severe in history, will not be lifted until two things happen. one, the russian military withdraws from ukraine and ukraine restores its territorial integrity and sovereignty, and, two, putin and the indicted generals, the indicted fugitives from justice are surrendered to the hague. it would be implausible for the sanctions to be lifted until that happens. this is exactly what we did in the balkans. we kept the sanctions on serbia