Uh… de facto reality here; Israel, the Taliban, China, and Russia are all, currently, very effectively exercising their power along those lines, whether or not

Uh… de facto reality here; Israel, the Taliban, China, and Russia are all, currently, very effectively exercising their power along those lines, whether or not they have the “right” to do so. The US is also extremely good at censoring, worldwide, what it wants to, and it’s been using its soft and hard power since its inception to do so. Insofar as that’s kept nuclear weapons and chemical and biological weapons from proliferating into the hands of those who would use them there’s an argument that the means can justify the ends, and it’s precisely that argument that the Australian government is trying to test here. And yeah, the solution is an extraterritorial court with the power to adjudge the limits of inter- and intra-territorial laws and who can promulgate and who gets to and how they can enforce them. Can’t see Elon helping build that, mind.