The power to destroy an institution does not confer the authority to abolish it. The United States cannot extinguish the International Criminal Court through coercion without replacing the legal principles upon which its own claims to sovereignty and authority depend.
The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.
