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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There is no international police force and international law is generally difficult to enforce. The inherent benefit of having these rules put down is that it creates rules for how to fight that can be understood and allows for escalations to be understood by each side. Let’s say two countries are at war. If one breaks international law by using chemical weapons on a civilian target in the other, then the other country can now use chemical weapons against the other. If one nukes the other, the other is allowed to nuke back. That’s kind of how these go
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