Je suis proprement effaré par l’affirmation qu’on ne peut négocier avec Poutine. Alors, vous faites quoi? Vous attendez son suicide dans les ruines du Kremlin? Vous planifiez une guerre de Trente ans? A part la négociation, c’est la seule alternative qui reste….

The more implausible the logic and the firmer your belief in it, the stronger your true faith. Which shows the attitude described here for what it is: (quasi-) religion

The sort of talking points you pull out when you've got nothing left, when you're flailing and know you have it coming.

Who would have thought CIJ_ICJ would provide us with such a nailbiter in our lifetime?

Wahnsinn! Eine geniale, radikale Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, von Finanzprokurator Wolfgang Peschorn

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I'm trying to imagine what this would look like - the removal of thousands, against their will, over a long distance - and the closest I come up with are Stalin's mass ethnic deportations (Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars etc).

Except the entire world would watch it, live.

In mid-90s Russia on a train, a woman explained Soviet multi-ethnicity to teenage foreigner me: 'those other nations are smarter than us, they speak Russian and their own language, too'.

Like the elites (people?) of rising powers in our multipolar world all 'speak West'.

Amusing to see the NAFO et al crowd adopt full-on Bush-era anti-UN rhetoric when they don't like a tweet condemning attacks that kill civilians in both Ukraine and Russia. Twitter's Community Notes are just the latest pitchfork available to the flag mob.

You'd be surprised how critical women's rights activists from war zones are of what's considered proper attention to sexual violence by media, governments, aid agencies, but what they know to be lurid fetishization, manipulation, instrumentalization and abandonment of victims

It is misleading. The confiscation of foreign assets stemmed from a declared war or a peace treaty. As far as I know, we are not at war with Russia and no treaty has been signed.

former US Ambassador to Russia driven mad by the idea of diplomacy with Russia

Not surprising at all that one would see an all-out assault on all things postcolonial and decolonial with the weakening of Western global hegemony.

Liberal ‘tolerance’ was only ever founded on a haughty confidence in the end-of-history status quo.

Guess I’m overly sensitive but from a legal point of view I’d prefer reading “shall” or “must” instead of “should”

“Vietcong are merely puppets of Moscow, Beijing”, “Hamas are merely puppets of Tehran”, this unbroken logic has by recent history unfortunately justified limitless civilian casualties and destructions; when genuine political grievances and aspirations on the ground are reduced to

For some time now, thousands of paintings by 20th ct Ukrainian artists are being hawked to American buyers by US auction houses. No really big names, but competent, professionally trained, listed artists, the kind you'd find in small-town museums. I find this concerning.

The silence is deafening. I'm guessing behind the scenes, MFAs and EU Council meetings must be buzzing with communications and contingency planning.

Easy to make fun of, but one serious conclusion is that Dershowitz is simply not qualified. He's not an expert in public international law, ICJ procedures, the Genocide Convention. Are none of the qualified int'l law experts taking Netanyahu's calls?

Reading a foreword about IR elites taking risks to challenge orthodoxy. It's true, but it's such a soft landing compared to the activists I work with, who risk death, violence, exile, their families disowning them. Yet guess who gets job/book offers for their courage?

Mir kommt vor, man will das in Ö als einen Einzelfall sehen, als ob Benkos Unternehmen jahrelang keine Steuern zahlten nur weil er mit Kurz befreundet war.

Dass Großkonzerne nicht oder kaum Steuern zahlen ist aber ein strukturelles Problem.

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Arestovych still hustles self-help seminars of the gaslighting, social-darwinist sort. This one, about manliness, is titled 'it is hard to be a god'.

If you think Germans are being weird about Israel and Palestine, wait until you hear what they're doing about firecrackers