🧩 BND Motif Index · M785
National sovereignty
A nation and its citizens are said to answer to no foreign court or international body.
⚖️ Values🗂️ Who rules
- 🧩5claims filed under it
- 🎙️1left show it came up on
- 🎙️1center show it came up on
- 🎙️4right shows it came up on
- 🧶2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so
the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some
of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its
answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we
file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
- 🫏left-leaning
- ⚖️center
- 🐘right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued
against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
💬 the tellers' own words: “Brexit gave Britain its own laws back. Why pay Brussels to take them away again?” “globalist experts that are an ocean away” “Handing supreme lawmaking power back to unelected commissioners” “President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans” “the doubtful privilege of having them make our laws without asking us” “they want it at the expense of our sovereignty as a nation” “They want more power, and they want it at the expense of our sovereignty as a nation... The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.” “Trump claims the ICC has gone beyond its remit by pursuing non-member countries” “what it calls a "rogue" institution” “You're an American citizen. You should never be subject to any international law.”
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's
dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
🫏 Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
🐘 Told on the right 2
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-10 “American citizens should not be subject to the jurisdiction of international law.” 1
- 2026-10-10 “The International Criminal Court seeks to prosecute Americans and undermine national sovereignty.” 3
⚖️ Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-12 “The Trump administration is sanctioning the International Criminal Court to protect American sovereignty.” 2
🧶 Retold online 2
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-18 “The EU is a stagnant, over-regulated bloc; rejoining would be a step backward from the UK's global trade and national sovereignty.”
- 2026-10-11 “The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against the International Criminal Court by imposing sanctions on the institution to avoid international legal accountability.”