Burying victims of a Russian missile attack, Hroza, Ukraine, October 2023
Thomas Peter / Reuters

This July, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered his government to begin sharing information with the International Criminal Court’s investigation into atrocities committed in Ukraine. It was a surprising decision: the United States is not a member of the ICC, and for months the U.S. Department of Defense resisted the idea of assisting this ICC investigation, concerned about treading on a slippery slope that could one day lead to prosecutions of U.S. military and intelligence personnel. But both the White House and Congress appear to have set the Pentagon’s concerns aside. In August, with Biden’s

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