• Syldon
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    8 months ago

    How are these illegal sanctions?

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      8 months ago

      By violating international law:

      https://www.isjq.ir/article_145298.html?lang=en

      According to Articles 1 (2), 2 (1) and 74 of the UN Charter, the imposition of unilateral sanctions violates the principles of the Charter, the principle of equality of states, the development of friendly relations and good neighborliness, and consideration of each other’s interests and well-being.

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        8 months ago

        Are you LARPing being a communist in Eastern Germany? Are you wiretapping your home yourself or do you ask other LARPers to do it for you?

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        8 months ago

        How long has China been adopting the UN charter?

        This is news to me. I guess we can all forget about the nine-dash line from today.

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          8 months ago

          The UN Charter is the foundational document that the UN is built on. UNCLOS is a convention (one that, for what it’s worth, the US never ratified). The PCA is a non-UN body that’s sometimes used as an arbitration mechanism between two parties to avoid conflict.

          Do you have any grasp on international law, or do you just enjoy whataboutism?

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            8 months ago

            Doesn’t answer the question. When has China accepted UN charters?

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              8 months ago

              sigh

              don’t engage with idiots, don’t engage with idiots, don’t engage with idiots…

              I’d recommend you read a tiny bit into UN history and what the UN Charter actually is.

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        Read those articles and explain how the US is violating them? Also, your article is in an unknown journal from a place without free speech.

        Edit: Love the downvotes from people not bothering to check the primary sources.“US is bad so they must be violating international law with sanctions”

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          8 months ago

          “free speech” like prosecuting people for supporting Palestine, right?

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            8 months ago

            Are you insinuating that the United States has criminally prosecuted individuals purely for their support for Palestine? Any examples?

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      Dunno. Are there any illegal ways to pass sanctions as laws? I mean governments are caught all the time breaking their own laws. I wouldn’t put it passed congress to break the very laws they themselves have passed in complicity because they all benefit from it in some way.

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        8 months ago

        Most western governments are held accountable to their own laws. This is why Trump is in the bother he is in today. There are always going to be one or two slippery characters, but versus the autocracies in the world, they have a much higher hit rate.