Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 day agoNo, I am saying the West has been weaponizing international law for centuries. The Doctrine of Discovery was international law in that it was a decree that courts in multiple nation relied on to justify genocide, slavery, and land dispossession. The US has established that it will subvert all social institutions up to and including training, arming, and transporting terrorists. It has also demonstrated that it has every intention of establishing a dominant presence encircling both China and Russia in the USA’s insane quest to undermine MAD and win a nuclear war with a first strike decapitation. China is asserting its control over a specific region of the seas that are a national security priority given the US’s constant beligerence. To say that China may not have such a presence and may not declare the region militarized due to internation law is the same thing as saying Biden can’t do anything about Trump because he lacked the necessary legal procedures to do so. China is establishing it’s national security boundary as its military assessment sees fit given the threat of the US surrounding it. I am not going lose sleep over China breaking international law about freedom of navigation in the waters nearest it’s territory when the US is destroying a dozen countries at any given time.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That was a whole lot of words to say “USA bad for ignoring international law…but China good for ignoring it”.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
China’s not good for ignoring it. China is violating international law in its attempt to establish its national security against the constant threats by the US and its allies.
The US violates international law to steal oil, traffick human slave, drugs, and weapons, train and arm terrorists, dump toxic waste in poor countries that can’t defend themselves, and bomb whoever the fuck even thinks about running their own country.
These are not the same violations of international law.
It’s like saying that guy violated the law when he pulled an illegal uturn while you’re standing there with a rifle and 12 bodies at your feet.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh, so what China is doing is “bad”…but they’re doing it for “good reasons”? I find it hard to believe that you don’t see how disingenuous that argument is.
Americans have been hiding behind their own sense.of exceptionalism to justify all kinds of bad behavior. Small transgressions. Large ones. Doesn’t matter. They have an excuse for all of it, because they think the rules don’t apply to them. They think that because “(insert excuse here)”, they have the right to ignore them.
All you’re doing is making the same arguments that they do…you’re just doing it for China instead of the US, and acting like it’s SO different when China does it, because the US did it worse. It’s not a valid argument.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Violating law is not inherently bad, no. We all know this. Laws do not have moral/ethical value. So what China is doing is in violation of international law, but that does not mean it’s bad.
What the US does, as the world’s most violent empire, is bad - not because it violates international law but because it is acting in the interest of total domination and subjugation of the world’s people.
What China is doing in the SCS is very clearly in the interest of establishing its own national security against exactly the immoral behavior of the USA. Sure, harassment of fisherman feels like a terrible thing, but when we look at it in the full context, China is asserting its willingness to control a region of the waters and apply a consistent rule in those waters (no one has access) in an attempt to create conditions under which it can stop war ships from the US, UK, Japan, and other anti-Chinese powers from operating with impunity in those waters. And the reason it wants to be able to do that is because these countries have all raped and pillaged not only China but many of the countries that have coastlines on the SCS.
What the US is doing is, having successfully raped and pillaged multiple countries with shorelines on the SCS, attempting to say it has the right to peacefully move war ships including nuclear-capable submarines into the SCS because it’s international waters and it doesn’t matter if strategically that means China will have a gaping security hole in its national defense.
Again, it’s like saying cryptography is illegal, and now that we’ve made it illegal, it is actually immoral to protect your home computers from hackers and then saying someone installing cryptography is just as wrong as the hackers stealing their data. It’s total bullshit and you and people like you totally understand the concept of immoral laws and laws with immoral consequences when it involves concepts in your own ideology but you discard it immediately when it comes to the national defense of the West’s military targets. You have to see how disingenuous this is.