This is what happens when I don’t real time blog, I get distracted but its a bad day for news. The usual knob heads are ramping up the acts of piracy in the Persian Gulf and blaming Iran. Earlier in the week, a motion virtually supporting an illegal military intervention in Venezuela was debated at GMB Conference. Some people need to be reminded.
Aggressive war is illegal, “regime change” as a goal of military action is a war crime.
States have a right of self defence, any other action needs the approval of the UN Security Council. The UN and the rule of law are our best hope for a better world.
It’s not good enough to say “it’s broken” and our moral judgement cannot supplant this Law.
I have quoted some bits of the UN Charter, below/overleaf.
ooOOOoo …