Twenty minutes is about how long a normal person can be reasonably expected maintain attention, even if the content is interesting. That’s why TED talks are 20 minutes long.

On the other hand, Trump’s rants are mind numbing. You’re either seriously trained at listening, or you have something wrong with your brain, if you can listen to him for more than 2 minutes without zoning out.

Ja?

I am not asking for a legal framework to enforce acts of anti-genocide.

Yes it is flawed, but it was basically “give the 5 largest powers veto power, or they don’t participate”. If they don’t participate, it would be even more ornamental than it currently is.

Ideally they would have more power to stop shit like this, but the UN as it stands is better than nothing. They do bring countries together to talk things through that otherwise might not have and have successfully de-escilated issues in the past.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t expect, or push for, better, and I’m not saying this is your view point, but I do see the sentiment that they’re useless/do nothing quite often.

Walking out won’t ultimately achieve much… But it’s at least better than sitting their and letting him feel validated in his psychopathic plans.

Russia has veto it vote against any resolution about Ukraine. European countries still provide billions in aid and arms to Ukraine to defend itself . The genocide convention is a bigger authority document than UN resolutions

The permanent UNSC members with veto power was a huge mistake. But possibly it was nessecary or these members wouldn’t have joined at all and the UN would have been stillborn. The US now has cast more vetoes than the rest of the UNSC permanent members combined

Its been flawed for a pretty long time at this point. The fact that Russia has remained a member for all these years is proof enough of that.

Yeah, but at the time the US could have fought every nation on the planet to a standtill and the USSR could have fought every nation on the planet but the US to a standstill, so there was no way to not make them permanent members of the security council with veto power since they could just ignore other countries if they wanted.

Because there need to be reasons to participate in society properly. If it’s “we’re cutting you off from all trade and never restarting it,” there’s no incentive for them to change their behavior. Sanctions always give a reason.

Punishment isn’t a good motivator of human behavior, reinforcement is.

That would be for the best since the US has veto rights over everything, basically.

lol no way in hell they’re gonna give up their permanent Security council seat, that would be the best thing they could ever do for the UN

This guy is from a centre right party. Not exactly my first ranked choice (or any for that matter).

Its not that difficult. In fact that state already exists.

I don’t know why people like you can’t seem to comprehend the idea that the Israelis have been living in the region for thousands of years. Yes a lot of Israelis returned to Israel in 20th century, but it is their ancestral homeland (Jews were expelled from the region – you are aware that they were subject to forced expulsion, aren’t you?), and the fact of the matter is european migration to the area goes back to the 1500s. Those migrants didn’t steal their land and they didn’t just come uninvited.

And both sides have acted in a genocidal manner toward the other at this point. Many people would argue that Israel has even restrained itself. If you want to sit there and act as if Gazans wouldn’t kill every single jew in Israel given the opportunity you can go ahead and delude yourself, but they have already stated that they would and the rest of the middle east serves as extremely good evidence of the violently homogenized culture of the region.

You cannot just pick and choose the parts of history which serve your purpose.

But that would cause the dame problem but in reverse. What do you do with all the Israelis who were born and raised there?

I am not defending Isreal. It’s just the reality of the situation. I hate what Isreal is doing. But it feels like people forget that hamas is just as horrible.

Were the jews violently attacking the germans prior to the holocaust?

I don’t agree with you on your point about finishing the job.

How is Israel fascist?

Id say that’s more red skull or scarecrow personally, Joker generally only cares about it for folks who are in on the joke IE have context.

Trump would then go gaga against the ICC.

How would they get him out of the building?

Because of this the American Service Members Protection Act

The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.

This authorization led to the act being nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act”, since the act would allow the president to order military action in The Hague, the seat of the ICC, to prevent American or allied officials and military personnel from being prosecuted or detained by the ICC.

The subsection (b) specifies this authority shall extend to “Covered United States persons” (members of the (“Armed Forces of the United States”), elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government) and “Covered allied persons” (military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand).