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Reasons the Geneva Conventions prohibited the annexation of territory by conquest after the Second World War:

1. It is a Pandora’s Box that opens an endless litany of historical grievances and re-adjudication of existing borders through violence.

2. War is terrible and bad; it always and without exception produces atrocities that cannot be forgotten or forgiven, generating new grievances and new wars.

The United States should have spent the last several decades doing everything possible to protect and honor the Geneva Conventions. Instead we gave certain countries carte blanche to ignore them and also ignored them when it suited us. This has now opened the door to a world of hurt.

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NSmolenskiFan 1y ago

It should go without saying that the American people, like any other people, cannot pay the costs of the collapse of the system of international law. Even if they wanted to, it would be materially impossible. This is not about Israel, or Ukraine, or any other country. It is about the fact that the American people and the U.S. government simply cannot appropriate and create enough money to single-handedly finance the unilateral, violent “containment” of the collapse of the global system of national sovereignty. That work has to be done diplomatically, over generations. And it requires leadership with a kind of character that has been absent for a long time.