eli5: what happens if the Geneva convention is broken? my friend tried to explain to me but I still can’t understand
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Ground rule in world politics: Only laws and agreements that can be enforced by consequences matter.
When Russia breaks Geneva conventions, no real consequence will happen. The world can not attack Russia and extract the people responsible and there is not much more to sanction. Internally, the leadership will not face consequences either because they lie through media to the population and say everything is fake.
The only “punishment” for such a country acting like that on the world stage is that other countries won’t trust them to keep to agreements that can not be 100% enforced, as Russia continues to break treaties and agreements left and right as soon as it suits them.
For smaller countries and leaders of such countries, if global powers care enough they may intervene and they may face punishments.
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