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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The world has no effective means of enforcing law above the nation-state. So whatever is or isnt legal according to the International Court of Justice is just words. Countries can and do ignore them every day without consequences.
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Sort of. But a huge part of what the US sees as giving itself legitimacy for its hegemony is the idea of it creating and caretaking a "rules-based international order." Obviously the US picks and chooses what rules it should itself follow, and they have no problem backing criminals when it meets their strategic objectives.
But maintaining that facade of order is important to the image that the US projects, and this is growing even more important as they try to prevent China's ascent. So the US's policy is absolutely going to take that into account, and they're already cautioning Israel about the fallout of their actions:
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President Joe Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering there.
Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken who departed Thursday for Israel with a message on protecting civilian lives have all explicitly pressed the case in recent private conversations with the Israelis, telling them that eroding support will have dire strategic consequences for Israel Defense Forces operations against Hamas.
Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties and calls for a ceasefire reaches a tipping point.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/polit...ans/index.html