• EndOfLine@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Somebody please correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the United States invade Iraq despite the objections of the UN Security Council? That happened, right? Without reprocutions?

    If that’s the case, I’m wondering who cares about the UN objecting to laws a country passes, within their own borders, that are not human rights violations. What are they going to do? Write a stern letter?

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      7 months ago

      This is definitely people trying to justify their existence rather than keeping up with the times.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Same as extradition and breaking laws of another country even though it doesn’t break any laws they are in.

        And yet the International Criminal Court is fine, right? Despite it only going after POC from ex-European colonies.

        This whole idea that you can commit any crime you want: if it crosses borders, if it is a crime against humanity, if it occurred in a country that it happened in is a failed state and could never prosecute the person, or if it happened at sea doesn’t work and never will work. Governments have a right to go after people outside their borders in specific situations and without that right the world is full of pirates, genocidal warlords, international cartels, Russian paid shills, etc.

        Don’t like it? Don’t commit genocide and you are highly highly unlikely to have an issue.

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      7 months ago

      International law isn’t really a thing. The true limits to what a nationstate can do are established by military and economic interventions alone.