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by benlumen 1570 days ago
To whom? Lawless despots?
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Everyone.
Call me old-fashioned but I could argue that "everyone" benefits from a world where we can still economically isolate genocidal regimes.

We do away with this power at our peril.

I 100% agree, now who you want to be the judge of bad/good wars? The UN w/ veto power for big countries? Maybe the international war crime court where "the US government has said that it will not cooperate with the ICC and has threatened retaliatory steps against ICC staff and member countries should the court investigate US or allied country citizens" [0]?

Don't get me wrong, as an American citizen, I enjoy my privilege very much. But, if I didn't have this privilege, I would fight as hell for amoral money or at least a fair international court.

0. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/02/qa-international-crimina...