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This is completely inconsistent with the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions, is a return to the Cold War at best and at worst demands we forget everything we l
by cmurf 5y ago
This is completely inconsistent with the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions, is a return to the Cold War at best and at worst demands we forget everything we learned from WW1 and 2, sweeping all of that history aside in an apparent attempt to repeat it.
Allowing nuclear countries to threaten the use of nukes in order to successfully commit atrocities with conventional weapons is not distinguishable from "might makes right". The U.N. charter and Geneva Conventions were created to avoid those very things. Setting them aside, in particular without a replacement, does everything possible to put us on the path to another world war. Everything starts to unravel.
- crmd 5y agoI agree and would argue further that it would embolden belligerent aspirational regional hegemons such as Iran, and scare vulnerable US allies such as Japan and Saudi Arabia into to accelerating their nuclear weapons aspirations. TL;DR appeasing current nuclear powers will greatly accelerate proliferation and paradoxically increase the risk of nuclear war. Quite the conundrum…