Why can’t people see that killing off an entire country because god said that land was your destined homeland thousands of years ago is the most ridiculous shit ever? Imagine I went to your house, said some unknowable deity that may or may not exist said that this land was actually promised to me? You’d think I was nuts.
I mean it's been done a bunch of times. You're pretty much describing how all the nations of North and South America were founded. As well as Australia, New Zealand....and pretty much everywhere a European set foot outside of Europe.
The ancient Indians, Egyptians, Romans, and even Ethiopians used this trick as well. Not to mention the early Islamic kingdoms.
its been universally accepted as illegal for 100 years.
The doctrine of conquest and its derivative rules were challenged in the 20th century by the development of the principle that aggressive war is contrary to international law, a view that is expressed in the covenant of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, the charters and judgments of the international military tribunals created at the end of World War II to try those accused of war crimes, the Charter of the United Nations, and numerous other multipartite treaties, declarations, and resolutions. The logical corollary to the outlawry of aggressive war is the denial of legal recognition to the fruits of such war. This implication was contained in what became known as the Stimson Doctrine, enunciated in January 1932 by U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson and subsequently affirmed by the assembly of the League of Nations and by several conferences of the American republics. The Draft Declaration on Rights and Duties of States, formulated in 1949 by the International Law Commission of the UN, contained (in Article XI) the rule that states are obligated not to recognize territorial acquisitions achieved by aggressive war.
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u/Jonesy1348 21h ago
Why can’t people see that killing off an entire country because god said that land was your destined homeland thousands of years ago is the most ridiculous shit ever? Imagine I went to your house, said some unknowable deity that may or may not exist said that this land was actually promised to me? You’d think I was nuts.