Re: Craig Murray - Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on February 19, 2024, 8:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Craig Murray - Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity"
" and may I point out the very division of our human populations into mutually recognised sovereign states, what we call countries, is international law in action.. " No. That's called fait accompli. "Ken, "there is no such thing as international law"? If nation states agree there is, then there is. It can be by custom, by treaty, by the application of generally accepted legal principles within the states themselves." -But they don't do they? That the country with 750 military bases all over the world...that outspends the rest of that world put together on guns 'n bombs doesn't recognise any law above its own puts the matter beyond doubt. Were it actually illegal to invade a sovereign country many of the Presidents and politicians of that country and our own such as the Bush-Blair mob would all be in jail with the keys thrown away, such was the extent of their crimes, but no...they are rolling in the money, giving speeches to admiring audiences around the world and only occasionally being imprisoned for an hour or so to get a photo-op with Bono. There is no International Law...there is merely a vague ever mutable list of US elite desires, named the "International Rules Based Order" which decrees a hit-list of nations it considers errant to its aims, and which it undermines by means of it's choice: NGO's, economic sanctions, funded "militants" or direct warfare.
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