Post by @Justbeep@social.tchncs.de

@Justbeep@social.tchncs.de

2026-01-04 08:21 UTC

@kravietz @rberger @anarchy79 I disagree that it was Putin mostly or alone. It has a much longer history. ( It was, btw, Russian lawyers who pushed for stricter international after the 2nd world war. Rules that today also #Russia completely ignores. ) To be frank: US administrations also chose to ignore international law if it gave them no leverage. They also ignore international court rulings related to their troops ( not just since Trump - he simply also attacks those institutions! ) The very same is true for the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation - maybe even to a larger degree. Check, how many 'interventions' of either of them started with mandate of the #UN ... Probably an even number you can count without fingers.

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@Justbeep@social.tchncs.de 2026-01-04 08:21

@kravietz @rberger @anarchy79 Why? It's a known construction fault to have veto rights for certain states. So any resolution can be turned down by them. This is the core of everything that goes wrong since the very start - and it's intentionally! Without correction of this, we remain in a more-or-less rule based state - and of course countries with strong military power have no interest to let go. Each of them won't if one of the others does not - and through the decades nobody seems to have found a solution ...

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@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net 2026-01-04 15:01

@Justbeep@social.tchncs.de IIRC, the first post-WWII international overt aggression without a pretense of legitimacy was Reagan's invasion of Grenada. And even *Thatcher* was wary of it undermining international law. @kravietz@agora.echelon.pl @rberger@hachyderm.io @anarchy79@mastodon.social

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