Eh? Please enlightened me. If the UN doesn't make laws, then all those war crimes committed from the Nazis and Japan
Those tribunal were not held by the UN but by the governments of the Respective allied governments. The US,UK,USSR and France based off The Hague conventions that dated before the war. Laws are not retroactive and courts can’t judge the guilt of a party based on laws written after the fact can they?!
down to Iraq. All those infamous pack of cards war criminals ♠♣♥♦ was just my imagination then.
those are based not on UN edict by the Geneva Conventions that predate the Charter of the UN. The UN or other bodies enacted the tribunals. In the case of Iraq it was via not the UN but the Interim Iraqi Government. If you wish to call that a puppet of the US feel free.
The Deck of Cards was issued by the US DOD.
The US, UK and the west making such an issues of having UN mandate to have a "LEGAL" war was a waste of time then, because all the time, the UN didn't have any authority at all to declare all the wars US, UK and the west have ever been involved in is "legal"!
again based off either The Hague or the Geneva conventions which date back to the late 19th early 20th century and were signed and ratified before the 1945 charter of the UN.
Be that as it may. But what sort of message, the leader of the " free world" is sending to the rest of the world?
It used to be said that a country stand by what they SIGNED! But I guess the US does believe American is exceptional!
Except it wasn’t Signed by the Head of state of any party. It was signed by the foreign ministers or in the case of the US by The Secretary of State. Historically Such figures have started to negotiate deals and had their head of state/Governments toss them. The JCPOA tried to make an end run around this and the Obama administration ran it as an executive order by the President of the United States. The US System however doesn’t recognize Executive order as Law, only as policy. Policy is subject to change by the successor. Since it wasn’t binding and not ratified, the Successor president could and did change policy.
You can try and twist it how you like but those who made the agreement were only able to maintain it had they maintained power in the US executive branch from 2016-2024. They lost.