When the founders of the U.N. gathered in San Francisco after the Nazis’ defeat in 1945, they made a bold decision: to outlaw territorial conquest, the method by which many of the world’s borders had been shaped. The newbarred members of the world body “from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
For decades afterward, the inviolability of existing international borders—regardless of how well they matched a region’s ethnic makeup or served historical justice—was one of the most widely invoked principles of global affairs. The broadto restore the independence of Kuwait—annexed in 1990 by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as its wayward 19th province—stood as a testament to the endurance of that postwar proposition.
But today, in a newly unmoored international order in which the strong increasingly exercise raw power over the weak, old territorial grievances are bubbling up to the surface again. This new willingness to try to alter borders by force is arising just as the U.S., which for decades guaranteed the stability of the international system, is pulling back from its global commitments and the institutions that it helped to forge in the wake of World War II.
“Our habit that borders remain fixed is the product of a very recent past, of the second half of the 20th century and the Cold War. If you look at European history, there has not been a single century when borders didn’t shift in a radical way,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a Moscow think tank that advises the Russian government.
“A principle of international relations is not some commandment from Moses. It’s the product of a balance of power and interests,” he added. “When someone is able to ensure that those rules and principles are observed, they are observed. When this ability ends, they are no longer observed.”
Who cares. Let them kill one another off. China and Russia will eventually go at one another. Russia has a population of less than 150 million. China’s population is 1.4 BILLION. Do the math
Funny no mention of Palestine or the West Bank. BDS
US🇺🇸must STOP finally it's unwanted destructive foreign🌍🌏🌎 interventions and respect countries sovereignty.
All humans are mortals,temporary on earth. so is ownership,borders on earth/space time material.societies are durable,yet mutable subject to natural law of fittest. Borders of one age not remained same in another era. so will be in future. It's mitigated only under UN government?
Your welcome
due a world war
JoeBiden SenKamalaHarris - build bridges and stability to the globe humanity; we all benefit collectively
Ambitious leaders.
Exactly what would they have us do? We can’t even disagree peacefully in our own country anymore. A little much that we should be asked to police others.
What a coincidence!
Um, related. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Sweetheart that started on Obama’s pathetic watch.
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