My thoughts are that international law is such a mess now that it doesn’t matter at all any more. It was selectively disregarded for years by the West, Russia, China and some others have been proving both that it doesn’t work as written and that precedents set by the West somehow don’t apply to others, and now all we’re waiting for is complete breakdown.

I don’t know if the UN goes the way of the League of Nations as a result of WWIII or if this breakdown takes some other form, but I also think it’s too soon to be developing the next system. The current patient formally isn’t six feet under yet and formalities matter with law.

It’s the good old point about the West having “rules for thee…”. I just surprised you with the angle, I guess.

I see what you are saying about the five untouchables, but cases against them happened. Just as political statements, with no hope of result. No one even tried sanctions this time though.

ICJ case was a circus on three levels: Ukraine literally did a strawman by claiming that Russia justifies the invasion with Genocide Convention, when Russia openly invoked article 51 of the UN charter; the ruling had little to nothing to do with the application; was unintentional self-trolling by the US diplomats that no doubt worked on the case, because… I’ll save it for Christmas.

As for the unilateral sanctions, there is ongoing debate over whether those are illegal, with some bodies like the Hague claiming they are illegal, as they bypass the UNSC, but there’s obviously the issue of one of the UNSC members themselves committing the initial crime unilaterally and vetoing resulting sanctions.

That is…not at all how law works. Mob justice is a criminal offence in most countries. Probably in all countries.

I’m not saying Russia had UN mandate to invade. What I am saying is that Russia made all the moves and got diametrically opposed results to those of NATO. Russia recognised LPR and DPR, signed agreements with them, even the blind OSCE monkeys in Donbass registered hundreds of ceasefire violations by Ukraine and only about two weeks later Putin came out with his stand up bit.

Which brings me to Christmas. The UN didn’t sanction Yugoslavia bombings. But ICJ ruled they were humanitarian intervention. Under what? Under Genocide Convention. Need I remind that Milošević was aquited by Hague tribunal after death?

Neither spirit nor the letter are broken. Rulings of an organization headquartered in NYC that can’t give a straight answer when asked about the US blatantly stealing oil in Syria are another matter.

So no new talking points for you, comrade) Not really. Just another angle to ridicule the so called rules based order.

Will Ukraine fight until the AFU collapses?

Most likely.

Will there be a coup?

Like, a pro-Russian one? Most unlikely.

Would a pro russian or neutral ukraine be established across all of what is currently the Ukraine, or will there be an attempt to make a “taiwan-ified” state in the west?

Strategically speaking, Russia needs the most industrialized regions and the entire shoreline. Demilitarization of the rest too. Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains. But it might be better for Russia, if it’s westward, so that Russia doesn’t have to rebuild at least that. Neutral status on paper though.

Which way what remains of “independent” Ukraine leans doesn’t matter a lot at that point, only that it remains.

I should clarify. That’s because the Russian government is clearly trying to do it “right”. SMO isn’t breaking international law, which is why there aren’t any sanctions, like, UN ones, only unilateral restrictions from individual countries(which are, ironically, illegal). Annexation of Ukraine wasn’t in the declared goals at any point. And leaving it be, albeit demilitarized, would be the final nail in the coffin of already ridiculous genocide allegations. Good for propaganda in a different way too. Independent Ukraine is yet another entity people in the West that have a good idea of what’s going on can point at as an example of NATO using up it’s supposes allies and leaving them the worse for wear, whereas annexing the entire thing just adds to the rUsSiAn ImPeRiAlIsT cOnQuErErS narrative, even if Ukraine asks for it till the end.

Aaactually, apparently I mixed it up, because what I meant would more likely fall under learning and intellectual disabilities.

Weeell, we’ve all been libruls due to most of us being raised in liberal consensus already. No such excuse for Duche libruls of his time.

But more importantly, I fucked it up. Apparently I had a day of D U M B yesterday, mixing up quotes and people. He started as a socdem. He was practically put in power by Italian libruls though.

Now to remember which famous 20th century fascist used to be a liberal, so that I don’t go barking mad by the end of the day… I remember there being an exception so to speak, as most fascists back then tended to be former socialists looking for “the third way”.

dies of cringe (No worries, comrade.)

The joke is that exactly due to corporate ownership of these platforms and outlets the joke’s main character can’t see this being discussed on these platforms and outlets as a problem. And the joke’s main character doesn’t read anything else.

No, I said that the problem isn’t on those platforms, not that I am not.

It’s roughly analagous with “this sign can’t stop me, cause I can’t read”?

I hate explaining jokes…

Imma downvote. For missing the downvote button.

It’s not on Twatter, TikTac, Faceboot, Slowgram, Nothingsup or the Faschington Post.

So I can’t see the problem, no.

I’m under the impression that there is a spectrum of learning disorders and some of them involve just inability to learn things of certain complexity. I might be mixing something up though.

My point is that, as you said, some people just need the better system. They’re not necessarily fit to build it, living as they are in the worse system that denies them survival at times, let alone specialized education and stuff.

Didn’t the guy with the funny hat start as a librul? Don’t tell libruls though.

Braille readers and audiobooks: “Are we a joke to you?”.

As for the people with learning disorders and such, I don’t think we exactly expect them to fight in a revolution?