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by xphx
1305 days ago
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> treaties [...] not based on trust How are these treaties enforced? All international treaties are ultimately based on trust. There is no higher authority, only elective councils of and voluntary commitment to procedures (a.k.a. promises) by sovereign states. Specifically not even these formal promises have been given by e.g. the United States of America which to this day has signed but never ratified either the VCLT[1] or the VCLTIO[2], so is figuratively giving a lukewarm "let's see about the convenience of that when it comes up". 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_the_Law_o... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_the_Law_o... |
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