@hhesterm.bsky.social @sevslv.bsky.social This is my understanding too. Digital autonomy has started but still ongoing. I made a few remarks around this (before Fridays sanctions were announced), in case it's of interest - www.justiceinfo.net/en/166197-us...

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An eery echo of US discourse during and immediately after it bailed on Nicaragua v US. That, too, was “political”, “lowering a threshold”, “damaging credibility”. And it too targeted a US lawyer - Chayes, 1st person to sue their own govt, whose portrait was taken off the State department wall.

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This statement alone encompasses Israeli hubris and supremacist self-regard in all of its shamelessness, but to answer Sergey’s question, I would say the US has long been a client state

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"... it is not only totalitarian dictatorships, but also liberal democracies—and states claiming to be democracies—that serially violate international law and promote impunity for themselves and their allies". Text of the excellent inaugural lecture by @sevslv.bsky.social www.ou.nl/documents/40...

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Note: contra the article Sergey links to, personal immunity is limited to heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers. There is nowhere near enough state practice -- essentially zero -- to extend personal immunity to ministers of defence.

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