2026-01-03 23:26 UTC
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@geolaw@aus.social 2026-01-04 02:38
@anarchy79 @rberger i would like to see the arrest warrant
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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2026-01-04 05:30
@anarchy79 While Trump’s attitude to law isn’t my favourite, let’s not put the chronology from heads to heels. It was not Trump who invalidated international law – it was initially done by Putin in 2014 and 2022 while the Global South that is now so much outraged watched in silence or cheered. Putin explicitly stated many times that international law and UN is dead – so now he’s got the very ‘multipolar world’ he so much wanted. The thing about international law is that – in the absence of global enforcement, unlike national laws – it has a largely conventional and mutual character, That is, international law only works for the parties that do themselves recognise it. Russia, Venezuela, Belarus, North Korea, Hussein’s Iraq, Taliban Afghanistan, Assad’s Syria and Qaddafi’s Lebanon have for long routinely violated international law or, as North Korea or Russia since 2014 did, outright rejected the very idea of international law applying to them specifically, while moronically expecting that it will be respected towards them. This assumption was true for a while, as US and Europe as desperately as naively tried to stick to the international law, which allowed the above actors operate at a situation very beneficial for them - when they needed, they were doing whatever they liked, but then promptly returned to the ‘protection of international law’ when they needed it too. Gazprom’s arbitrary disconnections of gas flow to Europe for political reasons, while happily turning to EU courts were a perfect example of this practice. As I see the current situation, Trump simply took Putin’s words about ‘end of international laws’ seriously and did what the latter was doing for the last decade. Let’s see how he likes it, because I have an impression that Putin gained on the protection of international law much more than anyone else. @rberger
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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2026-01-04 16:17
@lienrag Ok, but Grenada is 1983. Meanwhile we had Poland, where NKDV conducted full-scale mop up operations removing any non-compliant Polish population 1945-1946, then forced a fake referendum (1946), then fake elections (1947) and then essentially turned the country into a Soviet colony – all in blatant violation of Yalta agreements. Then East Germany uprising (1953), then almost every 5-10 years violent pacification of protests in Poland, then Hungary 1956, then Czechoslovakia 1968, in the meantime the Korean and Vietnam wars waged by USSR, various intervention in Yemen, then Afghanistan (1979) and again Poland (1980). Okay, and now we finally got to Grenada 👌 I don’t even mention any of the horrors that happened in USSR before WW2 including Holodomor or Finland war, for which they were justly kicked out of League of Nations. As I said many times, Western political circles has so much internalised the idea that Russia has absolutely no obligations under international laws that they simply don’t see anything Soviets or Russia does, while expecting that the Western countries will follow it to the letter 🤷 @Justbeep @rberger @anarchy79