| ▲ | epolanski 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> mostly due to the cost of funding the defense of the illegal war in Ukraine What is a "legal" war supposed to be? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | randunel 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
A war would be legal when the _casus belli_ leading up to it would be a non-military action. For example, Egypt might have casus belli if Sudan stopped the Nile's flow, a non military action with significant impact. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jltsiren 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
War is illegal under the international law for all UN member states. The main exceptions are self defense or when authorized by the UN Security Council. Of course, nobody really cares about that. | |||||||||||||||||
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