Obv Iraq happened before MAGA, all I’m trying to say is that there are going to be mistakes in the goal of creating a humane international order, but that’s why there needs to be rigorous accountability on people who screw up. And we especially need to be tougher on our allies when they commit war crimes. To protect against the norm of t…
Obv Iraq happened before MAGA, all I’m trying to say is that there are going to be mistakes in the goal of creating a humane international order, but that’s why there needs to be rigorous accountability on people who screw up. And we especially need to be tougher on our allies when they commit war crimes. To protect against the norm of territorial integrity, it is actually more important Bulwark speak out against Israel annexing the West Bank than Putin taking Ukrainian territory. The sanctity of law and norms only holds when the Global South witnesses those norms applied to our allies, it cannot just be a tool to punish our adversaries. It breeds cynicism and absence of even a pretense of neutral application of law, there’s going to be a jungle and only cynicism, and Trump wins because he isn’t even *trying* to uphold moral values. Israel has a right to exist, it was created through international law, but it needs to exist within defined boundaries. The Israeli far right should not be allowed to mass expel a certain ethnic population and then re-populate that area with another ethnicity of ppl. I’m increasingly convinced ethnic cleansing will happen, but it’s important that it doesn’t happen with American made weapons and that we condemn it. It’s the 21st century and the principle of territorial integrity must be defended.
Obv Iraq happened before MAGA, all I’m trying to say is that there are going to be mistakes in the goal of creating a humane international order, but that’s why there needs to be rigorous accountability on people who screw up. And we especially need to be tougher on our allies when they commit war crimes. To protect against the norm of territorial integrity, it is actually more important Bulwark speak out against Israel annexing the West Bank than Putin taking Ukrainian territory. The sanctity of law and norms only holds when the Global South witnesses those norms applied to our allies, it cannot just be a tool to punish our adversaries. It breeds cynicism and absence of even a pretense of neutral application of law, there’s going to be a jungle and only cynicism, and Trump wins because he isn’t even *trying* to uphold moral values. Israel has a right to exist, it was created through international law, but it needs to exist within defined boundaries. The Israeli far right should not be allowed to mass expel a certain ethnic population and then re-populate that area with another ethnicity of ppl. I’m increasingly convinced ethnic cleansing will happen, but it’s important that it doesn’t happen with American made weapons and that we condemn it. It’s the 21st century and the principle of territorial integrity must be defended.