The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is no longer a proposal. But the institution now taking shape should trouble anyone who cares about consistent, credible international justice — for three reasons. In closing that gap, the tribunal's founders opened another one that the Rome Statute does not have. The ICC's credibility problem and the Special Tribunal's design problem are not separate stories; they are the same story, told twice, about what happens when political convenience is allowed to shape legal architecture. Creating an institution that cannot, by design, reach the one man it was created for is not accountability.