Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days agoNo it doesn’t? Our freedom relies on our alliance to Europe and America, if China invades the ICJ will be about as useful as a lollipop stuck up a goats butt.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 6 days ago
‘Might is right’ is the world your wishing for. It isn’t the world you’ve lived in. ‘Might is right’ means Australia will fall under the extreme coercive control that you saw of a client state in such power relations as the USSR. The Post War American led consensus was not that, we are now at risk of it becoming that, and the actions of Israel have help along that emergent future.
You know i’m no fan of many of the USA’s activities, not only under this latest administration, but up until now there has been a self imposed, self limitation by powers like the US that allowed for the freedoms Australians have enjoyed in living memory. The impunity with which Israel has been treated also breaks that dynamic.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Not what I’m wishing for, it’s what exists?
What you’re wishing for is some sort of international world police? but this has never existed or had any real power
From 2004:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=084irEAQrLQ
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 5 days ago
A might makes right world in a geopolitical sense doesn’t exist now. The post war consensus exist, it means nations are self limiting with a floor under which they do not sink. Israel has sunk below that floor, the West’s inability to even recognise that has dealt untold damage to faith in the current world order, but the only other viable option ‘might makes right’ is unpalatable to most powers.
The UN oversees and impartially adjudicates, its track record from the earliest years on leading interventions was patchy at best, a catastrophe at worst. The UN only assembles military force if there is truly no alternative. Haiti might be one upcoming example. So no, i and the UN don’t advocate for some international UN police, it is nation states that make up this world order, it is nation states who must steer it together. The UN is a fantastic, and peaceful tool for that multi state mission, facilitating all with a chance to convince and guide.
In the zero sum ‘might is right’ world everybody loses a little all the time. You have to remember zero sum thinking assumes winner takes all, but it rarely accounts for the costs of a victory. A lesson hard learned with millions of lives.
The rise of zero sum thinking that is implicitly advocated by ‘might makes right’ or Chappelle’s sketch leads to instability, fear and greater amounts of stagnation. A middle power will be a mere play thing in the hands of the great powers, Australia’s growth will be retarded, our freedoms curtailed in service to great power competitions. We aren’t really in that now, and we can avoid that outcome, but not by buying into an ‘us or them’ mentality.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 5 days ago
He was saying exactly what George Bush was saying but in a humorous way, you’re trying to cling to something that never existed
You can simply look at all the wars China and USA have been engaged in over the last few decades and take stock. There’s a reason we tie our defence to Europe and America, it’s because the UN is utterly incapable of achieving anything other than writing strongly worded letters