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UN80, a leaked UN reform plan, presents an opportunity to shake up the UN’s peace and security structures. But without internal agreement on priorities, it risks becoming “just another discussion of institutional models.” Richard Gowan explains why. crisisgroup.org/global/can-uns…

I feel like where this comes from is there's quite a large constituency who were, and maybe still are, keen on genocide in theory but find that they don't quite have the stomach to see it through

The absolute kindest thing one could possibly say about this is it speaks to an abject incoherence of strategy

Well played those 7 Schmid voters, making good mischief

The UN should respond to this by moving #UNGA

This is how you handle a tear gas canister. Pour water around the canister. That’s to help seal the base of the traffic cone used to contain it. Then you douse it from the top and cover it. It’s extremely effective.

He has half a point in that it is somewhat irrational not to also sanction the entire government

Vultures. How do they sleep at night? I do understand humans occasionally need weapons and those weapons have to be sold by somebody. But this giddy boyish glee .... you'd never see undertakers or surgeons advertising like this and the services they provide are far less obscene

Israel is attacking Iran

2. The end results of this clusterfuck is almost certainly Iran actually getting a nuclear weapon, which it would have happily traded away for a decent deal with a reliable partner. The main difference: that'll be a much more unstable Iran with much less predictable leaders 👌

Not sure it's at all obvious that Tehran will lose. Not sure it's proven that even put together Israel & US have ability to meaningfully hurt the Iranian regime. They can and will hurt a lot of Iranians, & kill a lot of leaders, but surely if anything that strengthens the regime

Worth pointing out that the treaty prohibiting Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is the NPT, which is a treaty that is close to collapse because the UK and the other 4 nuclear powers are failing to uphold their side of the bargain it is based upon and pursue disarmament

Go away.

My suspicion that UK sanctions policy is theatrical, symbolic, and unstrategic is only intensifying

When I broke into Fairford I wasn't even arrested

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An important datapoint with respect to conflict =/= atrocities: all these rebellions and none of them are Rohingya