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Ukraine Foreign Ministry: Russia ignoring UN's ICJ means they should lose UN rights including veto (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2022 OP
A few weeks overdue... 2naSalit Mar 2022 #1
Makes sense to me. If they don't Phoenix61 Mar 2022 #2
Absolutely!!! SheltieLover Mar 2022 #3
Well.. Hell YES! Rt💕🐱‍🏍TY, hpd Cha Mar 2022 #4
UN is like a toothless tiger. ananda Mar 2022 #5
ICJ is not the UN and America doesn't recognize it cause America doesn't want to be bitten Alexander Of Assyria Mar 2022 #7
very true ! monkeyman1 Mar 2022 #12
Too bad USA has never recognized the ICJ. Not much a super power can do on the legal front Alexander Of Assyria Mar 2022 #6
Post removed Post removed Mar 2022 #8
Russia was never, ever voted into the UN obamanut2012 Mar 2022 #9
The USSR and the US for that matter were not voted in. former9thward Mar 2022 #10
There is nothing in the UN Charter which allows this. former9thward Mar 2022 #11
K&R UTUSN Mar 2022 #13

Phoenix61

(16,994 posts)
2. Makes sense to me. If they don't
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:32 PM
Mar 2022

follow the rules they have ceded their membership. IMHO, they should have been kicked out a while back.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
7. ICJ is not the UN and America doesn't recognize it cause America doesn't want to be bitten
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:54 PM
Mar 2022

by justice when it is warring.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
6. Too bad USA has never recognized the ICJ. Not much a super power can do on the legal front
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:53 PM
Mar 2022

if don’t recognize the Court.

The Pentagon will not permit any but it’s own investigations and outcomes of its many war crimes.

Response to Alexander Of Assyria (Reply #6)

former9thward

(31,949 posts)
10. The USSR and the US for that matter were not voted in.
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 05:39 PM
Mar 2022

The winning powers at the end of WW II assigned themselves to the Security Council when they created the UN.

former9thward

(31,949 posts)
11. There is nothing in the UN Charter which allows this.
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 05:44 PM
Mar 2022

I assume that is the reason the tweet did not mention any specific reference.

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