By the logic that you can just call things whatever you want and then you’re magically allowed to treat them as that thing
Welcome to realizing how actual geopolitics work. There are no rules, just “gentleman agreements” that most of the time major powers have held because they worried about reprisals for breaking the unwritten rules.
There is no such thing as “law.” Law is a word we use for the systems that keep citizens of a country from harming each other or the economy. When you’re a nation, there are no international police who will ticket you for literally just doing whatever the fuck you want to whoever you want.
*When you’re a NATO ally there are no international police. Russia Yemen North Korea etc. get sanctioned to hell (which doesn’t do enough to stop those regimes from brutalizing people, but it’s more than places like Saudi Arabia and Israel ever get).
Welcome to realizing how actual geopolitics work. There are no rules, just “gentleman agreements” that most of the time major powers have held because they worried about reprisals for breaking the unwritten rules.
There is no such thing as “law.” Law is a word we use for the systems that keep citizens of a country from harming each other or the economy. When you’re a nation, there are no international police who will ticket you for literally just doing whatever the fuck you want to whoever you want.
*When you’re a NATO ally there are no international police. Russia Yemen North Korea etc. get sanctioned to hell (which doesn’t do enough to stop those regimes from brutalizing people, but it’s more than places like Saudi Arabia and Israel ever get).