So according to what you said, it is justified to invade a sovereign country for the collective good of the global community. For the most part I agree with that. Furthermore I will add that we even have an organization to determine when such action in the name of collective good is justified and should be taken. I believe it is called United Nations. Agree?
I’m sure you know that for UN to take any collective action, majority of the countries should agree to it. For the most serious issues there is security council. Now, we will NOT debate whether the structure and current representation of the UN are fair. By doing so that will not get us anywhere. Let’s accept it as is.
Given that I honestly can not see how any one nation, or groups of nations for that matter, that play significant role in the UN can go against the very basic principles that they stand for by being UN members. No matter how bad and unjust any nation-state is behaving within its national borders, any act of military aggression against it requires a collective agreement. Without such an agreement military action is unfortunately unjustified by all accords of international relations. I hope you agree with me on this. At this point please do not say that certain nations in UN are better qualified than others in determining when that line is crossed and therefore have a right and obligation to correct what they see is wrong. I simply can not accept it and hope you do not either.
Since the United Nations does not recognize Kosovo as an independent nation and still sees it as a part of Serbia, Kosovo’s independence and right to be considered as an independent player in global community is non-existent. It is still a part of Serbia irrespective of what some people want to have. As a result any unilateral recognition of Kosovo by any nation big or small is baseless. Period.
What is real however is the legal outcome of this. By recognizing Kosovo as an independent nation, it gives a right virtually to any group of people to claim independence without regard for consequences as long as there is one nation out there that supports them. Therefore what just happened in Kosovo is likely to continue. There are many different people in the world that have much more rights than Albanians in Kosovo to have their own countries. My forecast is that now we are going to see more local conflicts as a result of all this.
Does this mean now that anyone can simply do anything in the sphere of international relation?
Why is it that before the Iraq war United States tried hard to make its case in the UN? They did not do it for nothing. They needed support of the global community to justify the military action. Same was in Kosovo in 1998. In both cases it was denied and look what happened.
How long is this going to continue? If UN is no longer relevant, let’s just get away with it completely and go back to anarchy. . The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Fair?
Once again, my responses to those questions bear no relevance to the discussion at hand. They were merely tools used to make a point, which was made. So go ahead and make your post...I simply cannot wait.
I agree your questions are not relevant. Yet you asked them of me and i answered. When i asked you to do the same, you resort to personal judgment about me. It took 40 posts to get a direct reply to my original question. Who is changing subjects??
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