International laws and reality.

The laws that everyone agrees on and accepts, the ultimate dispute resolution, are the laws of physics. If you can apply more force, you win the dispute.

If there is a dispute in nature between a lion and a hayina who own a carcass, the dispute is resolved and the ownership goes to the animal with more force.

The problem with resolving conflict by force is that such an indisputable dispute resolution process is the cost. Wars are expensive and deadly.

Therefore, humans came up with the idea of a less destructive dispute resolution mechanism called law. Ownership can be determined by the law, without you going to war with your neighbour every day about who owns your house.

But law, works only if it is perceived to be fair, applies to everyone, trustworthy, and has an authority with force behind it that can use force to enforce it.

Once the law loses trust, and becomes toothless, then people will revert back to the basic laws that always work. The laws of physics.

This is where international law stands now.
International law was respected during the cold war. And had the force to back it up. (Examples are the Korea Ear, and the Gulf War.)

But this is no longer the case.

Today almost no one respects international law. Not Putin. Not Iran. Not Hamas. Only the left in some Western countries still believe in it.

This is where we stand right now.