Fair enough. Operating difference is Ukraine is coöperating with the ICC. Afghanistan didn’t in 2017, a reason the ICC cited for rejecting prosecution.

The Taliban could have petitioned to have the case reöpened. But for obvious reasons, they, too, weren’t interested.

(Context: Ukraine ratified. Iraq never did. Afghanistan did under U.S. occupation in 2003.)

That wasn't stopping ICC before the US put sanctions on its members involved in the investigation.

Ooh la la. That's some fancy language you're speaking.