It’s of course a delicate situation. Hungary has announced it’ll leave the ICC in order to receive Bibi. The EU is toothless in this because it cannot touch the sovereignty of Orbán and Hungary. Orbán has misused the EU for his personal gain more than once, like using sibsidies in order to build a barely used monorail line from nowhere to his home town. He’s been using his veto time and time again to appease Russia. For the EU this is like running in a direction while some jackass is pulling the handbrake.

There are two avenues to walk. One is reprimanding Orbán. The effect will be that he will become even more annoying. With far right emerging in Europe, it’ll be a matter of time before Orbán gets his way. Or, the EU could just let Orbán do whatever he wants. Picking their battles in order to win the ones that really matter.

This means that the EU doesn’t really want to convict Netanyahu in the ICC. Putting him on the list was a gesture but upsetting the status quo is not worth it.

The EU is looking further ahead. Detaining Netanyahu will tense up relationships with an already distancing United States. Trump is unpredictable. He already doesn’t like the EU, mostly because he has certain feelings that cannot be explained through fact. Russia is also unpredictable. The last thing Europe needs is to be in between the US and Russia on the same side. The EU also doesn’t want us to be the terrain of a proxy war.

The only way out of this is to arm ourselves to the teeth so that when global superpowers want to fuck with us, we will have them find out.

Do you see that happening? Yeah me neither.