Comment by adastra22
5 years ago
Legally, everything is ok for a sovereign nation to do unless there are signed agreements prohibiting it. That's how law works.
5 years ago
Legally, everything is ok for a sovereign nation to do unless there are signed agreements prohibiting it. That's how law works.
Based on what?
it's the common basis of international law. Sovereign nations aren't beholden to anyone else. It's what sovereignty means: they get to do whatever the fuck they want according to their own made-up rules, unless a treaty they have signed explicitly outlaws the thing in question.
There are a lot of treaties governing proper rules of warfare. Russia is entered into many of them. But Russia has not signed any of the treaties outlawing the use of cluster munitions.