A normal blockade is against imports to hurt your enemy, and not exports on which the literal survival of many completely neutral countries depends on. Now for the very first time in history (as it's a totally globalised world, where something like this was just unbelievable to happen) this is https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1535617896843452417 and of course you're not outraged. But go and tell me again about "GAE" and "American coup", call the effects of medieval style pillage "grain from Russia" again, you may add some more idiocy about "biolabs" or whatever, go on.
A normal blockade is against imports to hurt your enemy, and not exports on which the literal survival of many completely neutral countries depends on.
This sounds like an ad hoc rationalization, not like something established in ius in bello as we call it, right? Surely, a normal blockade would also include the prevention of exports to hurt your enemy. Hell, the free, democratic, free-press, anti-cluster munitions West is effectively blockading Russia from exporting anything except stuff that it needs.
C'mon man. You really think I want people to starve? Or that I think Russia is good and noble, as opposed to no better - or worse - than the West? Or that Timothy freaking Snyder would ever tell the truth?
BTW, even he says:
"First, it is part of a larger attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state, by cutting off its exports."
Sounds like a legitimate war aim.
But go and tell me again about "GAE" and "American coup", call the effects of medieval style pillage "grain from Russia" again
Even assuming that it is 'medieval-style pillage'. What business is it of the Muricans to tell starving Africans that "this grain is bad because Russia"?
you may add some more idiocy about "biolabs" or whatever, go on.
I mean, V. Coupland admitted it, and George Bush did as well with Vovan and Lexus. So what do you want me to say? I don't know what the hell they were doing in those biolabs, but the panic about them not falling into Russian hands sure suggests that it wasn't exactly decent stuff.
I am not sure what 'globally' means. I am sure there are other instances. Didn't Nigeria blockade Biafra into starvation, and intentionally so?
Globally means we actually probably never had such a situation where a global supplier of food is being blockaded.
Like by the time the Germans occupied Ukraine it was back to (barely) feed the Soviet Union.
Btw some 2 million Soviets starved already after the war ended, because of the war.
Probably. But does that have an effect as to the actual legality of a blockade?
Quite incredible, especially as IIRC the authorities were even exporting food and sending it to Eastern Europe ass well.
They were stealing all kinds of everything from occupied countries, even entire factories, and people too.
Not much changed since then and now.
From Germany, right - as 'reparations'.
Or did they also do it from the other ones?
A normal blockade is against imports to hurt your enemy, and not exports on which the literal survival of many completely neutral countries depends on. Now for the very first time in history (as it's a totally globalised world, where something like this was just unbelievable to happen) this is https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1535617896843452417 and of course you're not outraged. But go and tell me again about "GAE" and "American coup", call the effects of medieval style pillage "grain from Russia" again, you may add some more idiocy about "biolabs" or whatever, go on.
This sounds like an ad hoc rationalization, not like something established in ius in bello as we call it, right? Surely, a normal blockade would also include the prevention of exports to hurt your enemy. Hell, the free, democratic, free-press, anti-cluster munitions West is effectively blockading Russia from exporting anything except stuff that it needs.
C'mon man. You really think I want people to starve? Or that I think Russia is good and noble, as opposed to no better - or worse - than the West? Or that Timothy freaking Snyder would ever tell the truth?
BTW, even he says:
"First, it is part of a larger attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state, by cutting off its exports."
Sounds like a legitimate war aim.
Even assuming that it is 'medieval-style pillage'. What business is it of the Muricans to tell starving Africans that "this grain is bad because Russia"?
I mean, V. Coupland admitted it, and George Bush did as well with Vovan and Lexus. So what do you want me to say? I don't know what the hell they were doing in those biolabs, but the panic about them not falling into Russian hands sure suggests that it wasn't exactly decent stuff.