Who owns the world - is there an answer in international law?

Over the past three years, Ukraine has been defending the world against a new world order based on force, cruelty, and the triumph of lies and evil, with the loss of thousands of its defenders, destroyed homes, wiped out towns and villages, and mutilated lands for many years.

Many people would say that there is no need for hyperbole and metaphors - they are for literature, but not in real life, because real life is based on real politics.

But real politics, according to the generally accepted understanding of the modern civilised world in the 21st century, is based on international law. Or is it not? It is said that despair is the path to self-destruction. We should not take the path of self-destruction.

We should fight for the truth and for the law, for international law.

The US President has demonstrated his vision of international relations - those that are built in accordance with the capabilities of power, which also recognises power, and those that can yield great profits mainly in the short term.

It turns out that the one who has committed the international crime of aggression against a neighbouring state continues to be a ‘good guy’. The fact that there are regular rocket attacks and saber attacks on civilian infrastructure, that there are genocidal actions against Ukrainians, that there is a demonstration of force by killing civilians and children - all this is publicly acknowledged, stated with regret, but the guy who commits such actions, who is an officially recognised international criminal, is worth being friends with. The person who made the decision to recognise an international crime as a crime is subject to sanctions. Why not, because you should be friends with a ‘good guy’.

It is not about Ukraine, about Ukrainians.. The ‘good guys’ do not have this understanding. When they talk about their own great state, they see themselves in this great state; when they talk about other states, they must also be great, otherwise they are not states, they may be another state, they may be a territory to be acquired.

Ukraine may or may not be Russia - what difference does it really make for great powers? Something is wrong, something is not right, something is far from what humanity was striving for! But this order of relations in the world is the result of its development, the choice of those peoples who make up a significant part of humanity on the planet today.

But the conversation about this is overly serious, it is far from humorous, and it is not about what we have experienced, not about questions and answers from the screen: ‘Slavko, are you running for president, because I'm running...’.

A serious choice is always the responsibility of the person who made it. It seems that artificial intelligence, which was recently discussed by the leaders of the two states in a telephone conversation when deciding on the possible end of the aggression against Ukraine, will be on the side of voters, with their unpredictability in their decision to make another choice for the next leader of a small or perhaps even a large state.

As it turned out, artificial intelligence, programmed by the human mind, acts in a democratic state during elections against reason, as an instrument of hybrid aggression against humans. Artificial intelligence does not know if the programme does not have a relevant file that exists and has the right to act. Does a person know this when he or she makes a choice that determines his or her future?

Who owns the world today? The Telegraph claims that it belongs to Trump and Putin. It seems to be exaggerating. However, we will not find an answer to this question in international law today. Although this prospect of finding an answer in international law is the prospect of human life on the planet.

In the end, the last of those who had a satanic desire to possess the world ended up in the ashes. This should be remembered when new contenders for the division of the world forget about the world and its legal order, about who really owns this world.

Photo by Glavkom.

Petro Yasen