CarawouVladimir Putin calls Khamenei's death a "cynical murder" in violation of international law
iktTranslation: Russia got embarrassed again as the world’s biggest Mafia state-run gas station that can’t protect its “allies” for shit
All these empty words from a terrorist state that’s practically incapable of more than bombing civilians. Absolutely pathetic.
Always with the “we stand up to the West” and as soon as one of theirs gets attacked, zero aid or action. No substance whatsoever.
In much the same way that the west did not protect Ukraine despite them voluntarily giving up their nukes. Iran likely sees that and makes it even more desirable to have nukes. Whether they are actively developing them, or that’s a pretext for an invasion that’s once again about oil is yet to be seen.
Miles O'BrienThe Budapest memorandum of 1994 ensured that the US and UK would "Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”
That happened. It’s a promise to bring the issue to the UN security council for a vote on action. Not a promise to invade any attacking country.
What also happened is that Russia, a seat on the security council, has the power to veto, and a conflicting interest here that the UN decided couldn’t possibly be a problem in the future.
I’m not saying we have done enough.
I am, however, saying that we have held up our end of the agreement, as written on paper.
As far as I’m concerned, my country is 1/3 of the reason they’re in this mess, so we need to step in and directly protect them at the bare minimum. Ukraine isn’t safe until their borders are restored to pre-2014, their infrastructure is repaired and improved, and they have enough to defend themselves from Russia AND the US. And also the government stooges of Russia get put to death for forcing their population to fight and die against an opponent who never wanted a fight to begin with.
UN decided couldn’t possibly be a problem in the future
Less that, and more that the existence of the Security Council with permanent seats and veto powers was a requirement to get the major powers to actually want to join.
Otherwise it’d have been the post-WW1 League of Nations, which pretty quickly fell apart. The US never even joined the League if I recall, they couldn’t get it through Congress despite it being President Woodrow Wilson’s own pet project.
Ultimately it’s easy to get a small power to join an org that basically serves to limit the options of individual countries by applying international law to them. It’s hard to get a large, powerful country to sign up for that same thing. The smaller country gains from joining, but the strong country actually weakens itself by joining.
FuglyDuckIt’s not really heartbreaking when you know the reason the worst person you know is even talking is to try and distract from their own shit.
Doesn’t make it less true, just less heartbreaking.
“Vladimir Putin says-”
Lemme stop you right there, pardner.
Don’t care.
This is probably the only hilarious thing I’ve seen in the context of the Iran War