This whataboutism is getting tedious. The question is whether Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. And it clearly is.
How do you "prevent and punish" without regime change? The convention has widely been understood to require a military intervention (Samatha Power talks about this at length in "A Problem From Hell")pic.twitter.com/9EkKLlT7z2
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It doesn’t say regime change. The most obvious way to prevent Putin from completing his genocidal project in Ukraine is to do what we’re already doing: Helping Ukraine expel the invaders by supplying weapons and intel and imposing crippling sanctions.
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Later we can talk about war crimes trials. There will be no shortage of guilty people, and some of them will actually have been captured by Ukraine and can therefore be physically put on trial.
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R2P, inspired by Power, covers how. "protecting affected populations through capacity building, early warning, & other preventive & protective measures" R2P also shows the limits of Power's approach. Milosevic was punished w/o regime change. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.shtml …
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