
Samuel Moyn & The Legal Constraints on War
The Philosopher & The News
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Do You Think We Can Blame the Western Powers for Facilitating What Russia Is Doing in Ukraine?
Do you think we can sort of blame er the western powers for undermining international law and therefore facilitating what russia is doing now in ukraine? Or would that go too far, and we should just focus on russia's own actions and not see them as kind of justified by what the us has done in the past. I distinguish two claims, one of which seems plausible to me, and the other less. The degradation of the international legal environment has consequences. And whenever you ploit a novel rational am, for using force, you're enabling pretexts for other actors. It becomes precedent to useele he legal ter or even if it's not, i meanit, you know
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