According to the U.S. the International Criminal Court has a clear role in the world: This court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin.
Back in 2018, the U.S. threatened to arrest ICC judges if they dared to investigate U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. It worked, because the ICC dropped the investigation.

“I made a decision, based upon the evidence, that the worst crimes in terms of gravity and scale and extent seem to be committed by the so-called Islamic State [in] Khorasan and also the Taliban,” Khan told a meeting of ICC countries in The Hague on Monday.

The U.S. then turned around and backed the ICC when the question of charging Putin for war crimes.

After watching this debate on Breaking Points it got me thinking about international law. Saagar made a lot of good points. He is right that the current international order is corrupt and has been used by the U.S. for its own interests. OTOH, I don't think that embracing naked power is the way to go. It's one thing to make laws that uphold higher moral ideals, and then ignore them most of the time. It's another thing to embrace the Law of the Jungle.
Let me give you an example. Many people are unaware that in 2017 the ICC nearly imploded.

Burundi on Friday became the first nation ever to leave the international criminal court, set up 15 years ago to prosecute those behind the world’s worst atrocities.
...“The ICC has shown itself to be a political instrument and weapon used by the west to enslave” other states, said presidential office spokesman Willy Nyamitwe. “This is a great victory for Burundi because it has defended its sovereignty and national pride.”

Set up in 2002, the ICC based in the Hague has often come under fire from some countries who claim it is unfairly targeting African nations.

But Burundi’s snub triggered a wave of copy-cat moves from other African countries. South Africa and Gambia said they would both follow suit, but later reversed their decisions. And Kenya and Uganda have also threatened to leave, but not acted on it yet.

Quite simply, Africa rightly noted that the ICC was built for Africa and for thugs like Putin, while it ignored the crimes of the west. So once Africa pulled out the ICC would essentially be completely worthless.
So what happened? In 2019 the ICC announced that they would start an investigation of Israel's war crimes in Palestine. This is the Buy-In. If Israel could commit genocide without the ICC issuing arrest warrants, why should any nations be bothered with it? The ICC literally has no other option than to act, no matter what amount of pressure the U.S. pushes upon it.
In case you were wondering, this is what they wanted Burundi's government for.

Overall, the violence in Burundi has claimed between 500 and 2,000 lives, according to differing tolls provided by the UN or NGOs, and more than 400,000 Burundians have fled abroad.

Yes, that's bad. But it's a fraction of Israel's crimes.

You can see this buy-in level being tested all over the world. The U.S. has seized $300 billion in Russia's foreign assets and wants to spend it rebuilding Ukraine, while also threatening China with all sorts of sanctions. What happens when the rest of the world decides "we can't trust you not to steal our money, so we're going to stop using dollars"?
In America the question of how little can our federal government represent its citizens, before working people finally say "fuck it, this isn't a democracy"?
It seems like the global elites have not learned the lessons of the French and Russian Revolutions after all. If you don't let the people have at least a few scraps from your table, then you will wake up one day no longer in charge.