Three countries “retreat” the world! the International Criminal Court collapsed! the hegemony system collapsed from the inside! the order behind the change
Withdrawal from the group leads to the dark side of the prelude to western organizations
Joint Statement of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on 22 September 2025 An explosion of international public opinion:
The three countries announced their immediate withdrawal The Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtThis agency called “defending global justice” has been destroyed. Neocolonialism is an imperialist tool of repression.”
Where are these three countries?
In the southern edge of the Sahara desert in northern Africa, there is a transitional area of desert and grassland, called The Sahel region, about 5,400 kilometers long from east to west, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and about 1,000 kilometers wide from north to south.
The Sahel region comprises parts of approximately 14 countries. Burkina Faso, Mali and NigerThese three countries.
And all of them are Sahel states, so this three-state alliance says: Union of Sahrawi Nations。
Again, the tripartite retreat, a book of hegemonic criticism written by the collective action of the Sahrawi State Union, further confirms a cruel reality:
The collapse of the credibility of the International Criminal Court depicts the collapse of the hegemonic system dominated by the West from within.
This has also made an exception for many countries. If it is not good, it will withdraw from the group if it is inappropriate.
really The “double standard” of the International Criminal CourtIt has long been no secret, but the withdrawal of the three Sahrawi countries completely put the hypocrisy of this organization on the table.
The International Criminal Court, an institution led by Western countries in 2002, was supposed to be a justice platform for punishing war crimes and crimes against humanity, but it has gradually alienated into Selective enforcementPolitical tools of.
For example, since its inception, the target of prosecution has been concentrated in developing countries such as Africa and the Middle East:
It issued an arrest warrant against Libyan leader Gaddafi in 2011, but Gaddafi died after being arrested in October of that year.
South Africa arrested in 2015 Sudan's then President Bashir。
In 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was placed on the wanted list.
However, in February 2025, President Trump signed an executive order threatening to impose sanctions on the ICC, saying it had no jurisdiction over the United States and Israel that were not parties to the Rome Statute, and warned that it would confiscate property and restrict entry to those involved.
In March 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Child Rights Commissioner Belova were arrested.
The accusations mentioned are also striking, the so-called “expulsion of children” that are about to bring children in the eastern region to Russia, but there are no other accusations such as provoking the conflict in Russia and Ukraine.
On the contrary, when a large number of civilians were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Western leaders who ordered the armed forces were never held accountable.
The same institution, taking a very different approach in different cases, has turned the ICC into a “political tool for war provokers”!
More and more countries are seeing the essence.
South Africa may even say that we are preparing to quit the organization!
Bo Zhang, the former Minister of Information of Gambia, once sharply satirized:
Where is the International Criminal Court? International Court of Justice for Persecution of Colored People" 。
When Russia withdrew, it even bluntly stated that this institution had become a "one-sided and ineffective political tool".
Now the withdrawal of the three Sahel countries is just a continuation of this wave of awakening.
The alert of the three countries that sovereignty cannot be eroded
Behind the decision of the three countries is the deep vigilance against the erosion of sovereignty.
The encounter with former Philippine President Duterte is a vivid lesson.
During that time, Duterte was investigated by the International Criminal Court for combating the D product policy, although he was not officially prosecuted, but was always under its surveillance.
If Duterte had previously announced his withdrawal, the current Philippine president, Mr. Max, would have been unable to bring him to the International Court of Justice.
Therefore, the three countries in the Sahel, at the critical node of establishing a confederation to consolidate sovereignty, used withdrawal actions to cut off the possibility of external forces interfering in internal affairs through justice.
This awakening of sovereignty consciousness is consistent with the history of the three countries in recent years getting rid of Western control.
As the three countries of the Sahel region, they have long relied on the military presence of France and the United States to combat extremists, but have fallen into the bizarre circle of "growing up the riots":
The intervention of Western troops not only did not bring security, but instead intensified unrest due to the support of agents and interference in domestic affairs.
Between 2020 and 2023, the three countries came to power successively through a coup, decisively expelling French-American forces and turning to seek independent security solutions.
The formation of the Union of Sahrawi States in 2023, the upgrading to the Union in 2024 and the withdrawal from the International Criminal Court are the continuation of this series of sovereign awakening operations.
Of course, the retreat of the three countries is not about giving up judicial justice, but to establish a system of justice that belongs to them.
The statement clearly stated that it will "rely on local mechanisms to consolidate peace and justice" and plans to establish a criminal court in the Sahel.
This " The institutional exploration of "de-Westernization" echoes the wave of countries in the global south seeking changes in the international order。
Expansion from BRICS countries to developing countries in the United Nations More and more countries are no longer satisfiedand passive Accept the rules set by the West, began to actively set the agenda and build the mechanism.
International Criminal Court symbolizes hegemony bankruptcy
The credibility of the International Criminal Court collapsed, The essence is the bankruptcy of hegemonic logic.
The United States has sanctioned Israeli court personnel for asylum, denied its jurisdiction, the Western countries with judicial tools to suppress dissidents but disregard their own crimes, has long left the institution's justice glow, the three countries of the Sahel withdrawal is only to crush this layer of illusion.
Nowadays, the court is caught in the cycle of "the more law enforcement is made, the more mistaken it is":
The more paranoid the West is, the more people recognize its essence.
The more countries withdraw, the weaker their representation, and this internal disintegration is more devastating than external criticism.
Justice is awake.
In the era of awakening sovereignty consciousness, The international mechanism that continues colonial logic will eventually be abandoned.
The withdrawal of the three countries is not the end of international justice, but the beginning of a new order.
It predicts that international justice should not be defined by a few Western countries, that global governance rules must reflect the common interests of all mankind, and that a more just international order is now growing in ruins.
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