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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUkraine Foreign Ministry: Russia ignoring UN's ICJ means they should lose UN rights including veto
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Ukraine Foreign Ministry: Russia ignoring UN's ICJ means they should lose UN rights including veto (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Mar 2022
OP
ICJ is not the UN and America doesn't recognize it cause America doesn't want to be bitten
Alexander Of Assyria
Mar 2022
#7
Too bad USA has never recognized the ICJ. Not much a super power can do on the legal front
Alexander Of Assyria
Mar 2022
#6
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)1. A few weeks overdue...
At the very least.
Phoenix61
(17,498 posts)2. Makes sense to me. If they don't
follow the rules they have ceded their membership. IMHO, they should have been kicked out a while back.
SheltieLover
(59,234 posts)3. Absolutely!!!
Cha
(304,419 posts)4. Well.. Hell YES! Rt💕🐱🏍TY, hpd
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ananda
(30,403 posts)5. UN is like a toothless tiger.
They should have already done this.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)7. ICJ is not the UN and America doesn't recognize it cause America doesn't want to be bitten
by justice when it is warring.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)12. very true !
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)6. Too bad USA has never recognized the ICJ. Not much a super power can do on the legal front
if dont recognize the Court.
The Pentagon will not permit any but its own investigations and outcomes of its many war crimes.
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obamanut2012
(27,716 posts)9. Russia was never, ever voted into the UN
Only the USSR was.
former9thward
(33,392 posts)10. The USSR and the US for that matter were not voted in.
The winning powers at the end of WW II assigned themselves to the Security Council when they created the UN.
former9thward
(33,392 posts)11. There is nothing in the UN Charter which allows this.
I assume that is the reason the tweet did not mention any specific reference.
UTUSN
(72,214 posts)13. K&R