Lula wants to move away from the most advanced democracies and join the autocratic axis that he believes will rule the world from now on, says Augusto de Franco Crusoe.
“More than 120 countries are signatories to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). All full democracies (according to The Economist Intelligence Unit) are signatories: Germany, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Costa Rica, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Norway, New Zealand , United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay. In addition, around 100 other countries recognize the court.”
“Only a tiny minority are not signatories. The fact that the US (which, according to The Economist, is no longer a fullfledged democracy) and Bricstan’s major autocracies (such as China, India, Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran) are not signatories does not hurt, it increases just the credibility of the ICC. Oh! But Cuba also does not recognize the court. Well, this is normal for any dictatorship that violates human rights. By questioning the legitimacy of the court, which he said would only have “trifles,” Lula wants to get Brazil into this mess full of remnants of the past and ruder reminders of authoritarian regimes that plagued us in times gone by.”
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