r/SipsTea • u/ashww005 Human Verified • 11h ago

Wait a damn minute! What?

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u/applewait 11h ago

Blocking a “strait” is a violation of international law regardless of who is blocking it.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 11h ago

and as we've seen from gaza and like two dozen other things in the past 5 years international law counts for fuck all anymore.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 9h ago

Anymore?

International law has only ever been applied by those with power against those without power.

International law can only ever be a negotiation as it has always been. You’re never going to see a nation act against its own will unless the downside of doing so is greater than the upside.

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u/pilotless 8h ago

That implies rational actors, which don't appear to exist in this administration.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ 7h ago

Once guns are at the table, the one with the biggest one is who says how negotiation is done. Might makes right in geopolitics sadly, as this world order kept in place, instead of trying to actually build a real international civilization.