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Duterte’s Fall Gives The Hague a Lifeline

1 month ago | danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry

By Chris StephenWhat does a court do when it has no cases to try? Shut down? Sell the furniture? Hire out robes and courtroom for weddings and bachelor parties? That was the problem facing the International Criminal Court. Its judges knew that when their existing cases wound up this summer, there were no more to come. Not because the ICC has no suspects. There are more than 30 at large, but none are being arrested. By this time next year, the jail would be empty, and the courtroom too.
BREAKING: ICC chief prosecutor sanctioned by US

Feb 13, 2025 | danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry

The US Treasury has sanctioned the troubled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, in the first move against the court by the Trump administration (and as foreseen on these pages two months ago). Khan is now banned from the United States, and any assets and bank accounts he owns there will be frozen, after Trump complained about the court’s warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
The Italian Job: How to Dodge Justice and Fly Home in Style

Jan 23, 2025 | danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry

By Chris StephenThe International Criminal Court has suffered a new blow to its authority after Italy released a key Libyan suspect in defiance of the court’s wishes. Libyan police general Osama Njeem was accused by the ICC of murder, torture and sexual violence as alleged boss of a detention center in the capital Tripoli. His arrest and release have been dramatic, verging on bizarre. Njeem had been in the court’s crosshairs for a while.
Will Trump abandon Ukraine?

Nov 14, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

Few countries are more worried about President-Elect Donald Trump than Ukraine, whose determined stand against Russian aggression would collapse without outside aid. That goes double with the indications that his secretary of state will be Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been calling for a "negotiated settlement." Whatever lipstick is smeared on the pig, that means letting Russia keep some of the land it seized.
A September to remember

Sep 29, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

Dear subscriber of Ask Questions Later:So impactful has been this month that we’ve decided to offer a quick curation of the highlights on Ask Questions Later – if nothing else, as a special service to the many new members who have joined just this past week.
Netanyahu Is Paying in Others' Blood to Buy Himself More Time

Aug 7, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

Exactly 10 months after the Oct. 7 massacre which sparked a devastating war in Gaza, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of an even wider conflict as Israel braces for a threatened attack from Iran and its terrorist proxies. It could easily arrive in coming hours. There are two seemingly contradictory ways to look at this tragedy, and understanding how both are true is the key to untangling one of the messiest situations in geopolitics since World War II.
America on the brink

Jul 21, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again," it says in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. "There is nothing new under the sun." It means that the human experience is essentially constant, and we should keep our powder dry. This is usually true, but not in the United States right now: there is dirty work afoot. We have a pretty big problem. I am not talking about the attempt last weekend to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Information wants to be expensive

Jul 16, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

Hello dear subscribers,You drive a hard bargain. You’re still an active reader of Ask Questions Later but you are reluctant to make the leap to premium.
Israel is self-destructing

Jul 15, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

Jewish settlers on the hill have democratic rights; their West Bank Arab neighbors in the valley do not (Dan Perry photo)Perched on hilltops in the middle of the Holy Land is Beitar Illit, a town of 70,000 devout Jews living in cookie-cutter red-roofed apartment blocs and spending their days in an extraordinary manifestation of devotion to religious ri…
U.S. pause on weapons to Israel is just a signal. So is Israel’s Rafah incursion

May 8, 2024 | danperry.substack.com | Dan Perry

The Russian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously said that war is diplomacy by other means. That’s what the limited incursion into Rafah that started Monday is: An effort to pressure Hamas to be more reasonable in the negotiations to free hostages, but not yet the real invasion everybody has been fearing for months. A corollary might be that the provision of military supplies is politics by other means.