During a closed-door session, after UN cameras were switched off and observers from civil society organizations were asked to leave, the US and Russia each brought in about ten lawyers. That was nearly twice the number of lawyers on other delegations. According to three sources, the changes were being made so quickly that smaller delegations were unable to keep up with the process.
It isn’t the US vs. Russia, it is the ruling class of the US and the ruling class of russia vs. the rest of us.
Why bother having the rule? America is going to drone strike whoever the fuck they want anyways and the UN are going to be too chickenshit or complicit to do anything about it.
Well… that was the world we used to live in, but the reason this is happening now is precisely because the US military no longer has complete dominance, many nations have figured out how to fight a combined arms conflict with modern technology and drones and so now all of a sudden having this rule might actually mean something…
I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ve spent too many decades with promises unfulfilled.