{"id":55086,"date":"2022-03-05T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55086"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:11:59","slug":"counterpunch-precedents-of-permissibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55086","title":{"rendered":"COUNTERPUNCH: PRECEDENTS OF PERMISSIBILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alfred de Zayas
\nMarch 04, 2022 – Dezayasalfred.Wordpress.Com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Alfred de Zayas<\/a>Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine entails a grave violation of the jus cogens<\/em> rule stipulated in article 2, paragraph 4, of the UN Charter \u2013 the prohibition of the use of force without approval of the Security Council. Admittedly, Russia has invoked article 51 of the Charter, which recognizes the right of self-defence until the Security Council is seised of the matter. However, this provision only operates when there has been a prior military attack, which a state must repulse, because its very survival is at stake. This is not the case in the current conflict.
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\nSome legal experts have evoked the idea of pre-emptive self-defence, which, however, does not exist in international law, and is as invalid here as it was when George W. Bush invoked it to justify his war of aggression on Iraq 2003. Some observers have suggested a justification based on the concept of vital interests of the state, which Israel invokes from time to time in an attempt to justify its crimes against Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and others. Only apologists would buy these arguments that lack any legitimacy in international law \u2013 or natural law.<\/p>\n

Our priority today must be to work for an immediate cease-fire, followed by urgent humanitarian assistance and an international conference that would attempt to reach a compromise that would be conducive to durable peace in the region. A compromise means that there must be give and take. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was resolved through a pragmatic quid pro quo, whereby the Soviets pulled their missiles out of Cuba, and the United States removed its missiles from Turkey.
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Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors<\/A>
\nBy C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout – March 01, 2022<\/em>
\nPolitical considerations, such as those cited by Russian President Vladimir Putin, cannot be used as arguments to justify the launching of an invasion against a sovereign nation. In the face of this horrific invasion, though, the U.S. must choose urgent diplomacy over military escalation, as the latter could constitute a \u201cdeath warrant for the species, with no victors,\u201d Chomsky says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alfred de Zayas March 04, 2022 – Dezayasalfred.Wordpress.Com Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine entails a grave violation of the jus cogens rule stipulated in article 2, paragraph 4, of the UN Charter \u2013 the prohibition of the use of force without approval of the Security Council. Admittedly, Russia has invoked article 51 of the Charter, … Continue reading COUNTERPUNCH: PRECEDENTS OF PERMISSIBILITY<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,1275,1245,1615,937,1616,1610,39,1614],"tags":[1617,42],"class_list":["post-55086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-international","category-israel","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-syria","category-uk","category-ukraine","category-usa","category-yemen","tag-alfred-de-zayas","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55141,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55086\/revisions\/55141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}