Israeli settlements amount to war crime - U.N. rights expert

What? No we don’t. We super didn’t under Trump. A few billions is trash we give that much to at least 20 different companies to buy weapons from us in defense aid.

I’m all for internationalism, but with the UN, IMF, and International Justice systems the the US, China, and sometimes Russia generally use it as a much more literal cudgel of international authority to get a crowd on their side when they happen to be with any sort of majority of nations. And when that happens whoever is offending just clams up or makes weird “hegemons only” or “at least we weren’t colonizers” arguments and waits for the next issue to gain the moral high ground. It has no enforcement authority, it’s a place to more efficiently manage stuff we already agree on and it only sucks at that cause it’s never been done before and is one of the hardest tasks imaginable.

Like the security council barely cracks down on stuff because one of it’s permanent members with veto power probably already took a side on the issue, just like the US and Israel (which is pretty much just Boomers and racists in the US now). Palestine used to have the Arab bloc, and it still sorta had Iran but most of those countries are going through massive problems of their own or were bought off or realized “they weren’t worth the hassle”. So the UN is very much not equipped to deal with this sort of problem and won’t be til the US and China and economics have changed enough that it’s in their interest to get along- which will either never happen or be when Venus or Mars is a counterpole.

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