cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 hours agoTrump is the new 9/11 - in a decade, we will be looking back with nostalgia to a world before international rules and standards were still validmessage-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down19
arrow-up1241arrow-down1message-squareTrump is the new 9/11 - in a decade, we will be looking back with nostalgia to a world before international rules and standards were still validcosmicrookie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 hours agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareLemvi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down4·6 hours agoIt’s not like international law really meant anything before Trump. It has been broken many times before with no real consequences, also by the US. The UN really doesn’t have the power to enforce anything.
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 hours agoIf anything this post is more so upset that now its wealthy nations that have to deal with violated international law. Poor nations have basically constantly had offense committed against them by wealthy nations regardless of international law
It’s not like international law really meant anything before Trump. It has been broken many times before with no real consequences, also by the US. The UN really doesn’t have the power to enforce anything.
If anything this post is more so upset that now its wealthy nations that have to deal with violated international law.
Poor nations have basically constantly had offense committed against them by wealthy nations regardless of international law