MIGHT IS RIGHT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

By Bayawanon

Sometimes in the '80s, a South Korean commercial plane was shut down by a Russian air force plane for having flown over at Russian air space, former American President Ronald Reagan dubbed such forgettable incident as a massacre in the sky. The countries of the passengers of such South Korean passenger airplanes went to the United Nations Security Council and asked such an international body to discipline Russia (formerly U.S.S.R.) or to let the same show cause why any sanction should not be meted on her for such act. Russia never appeared before the United Nations Security Council for the same is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council who has a vetoing power over matters cognizable by such international council and such a case is now moot and academic because of the same argument.

Also in the early '80s during the Carter Presidency of the United States, many American citizens were kidnapped in Iran, such acts were possible retaliation of the Iranian government against the United States for siding with Iraq on its war with Iran. When Ronald Reagan succeeded James Carter as president of America, Reagan then ordered the freezing of all assets of Iran which can all be found in America as a sentence for messing against the United States.

During the present epoch, China is trying to own everything over at the West Philippine Sea, the Philippines went to the United Nations Tribunal of the Seas to protest for China's act of getting islands of the Philippines which are well within its Exclusive Economic Zone but China never submitted herself to the jurisdiction of the said international court and instead continues to stand on her contention that the West Philippine Sea a.k.a. The South China Sea belongs to her.

All of the above-mentioned happenings were/are not in consonance with International Law, such acts of the above-named gargantuan countries (China, United States, and Russia) were/are in defiance of International Law with one common denominator and that is ... they are all permanent members of the U.N. Security Council who has the power to veto cases filed against them at the same international body and that they are all superpowers on their own rights. Plenty of similar cases had also happened but the same happenings keep on rewinding, hence I have only one thing to say regarding this, that clearly MIGHT is REALLY RIGHT in INTERNATIONAL LAW.