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aguaviva 4 days ago

74 countries across the two regions, last we checked.

You've got 72 to go.

ceejayoz 4 days ago | parent [-]

Only one - Chile - has affirmatively stated they’d execute the warrant.

Small countries try not to piss off large nuclear powers with a history of polonium use.

aguaviva 4 days ago | parent [-]

So it's not "No countries in Latin America", then.

And if we're going to use your dataset to extrapolate anything: probably half of them will enforce the warrant.

More substantially: I don't see where you're going with these objections. It's not like I think the warrant will be hugely successful. But it has to be issued and -- until Putin shows a significant readiness to bend -- it has to be kept in place. And it will have some effect. The exact percentage of countries that can be counted on to enforce it on continent X is obviously irrelvant.

I only jumped in because of the obviously vacuous, extremified formulation ("No country will ..."). Obviously they didn't mean it literally, but to underscore their point; but still -- it's a weird habit people unfortunately have on HN.

ceejayoz 4 days ago | parent [-]

> And if we're going to use your dataset to extrapolate anything: probably half of them will enforce the warrant.

Even Chile's stated willingness is probably a bit like "if I were a billionaire I'd do <great things>" - easy to say when it's not an actual decision ready to be made.

I like being pedantic as much as the next person, but "small developing countries don't love pissing off big angry ones with nukes" isn't the outrageous conclusion you're portraying it as.

aguaviva 4 days ago | parent [-]

Except I'm not making that portrayal.