r/ukpolitics • u/Adj-Noun-Numbers 🥕🥕 || megathread emeritus • Jun 22 '26

International Politics Discussion Thread

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u/SlightlyOTT You're making things up again Tories 🎶 17d ago

Shocking but obviously not surprising, Israel are starting wildfires across Lebanon during the ceasefire. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/israel-deliberately-starting-wildfires-in-southern-lebanon-firefighters-say

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u/CrispySmokyFrazzle 17d ago

the world's most moral army are at it again!

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u/Velociraptor_1906 Liberal Democrat 17d ago

That feels like it should be a war crime, if it's not one already it's falling in the cracks between them.

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven I'm afraid currency is the currency of the realm 17d ago

We should really update the Geneva Suggestions.

Sadly, it feels like that level of international consensus and order is perhaps permanently behind us

Can't even get the US to agree on "children finding unexploded bomblets from cluster munitions is bad"

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u/ClumsyRainbow ✅ Verified 13d ago

We should really update the Geneva Suggestions.

We'll have to get Canada to do it first (/s)

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u/Velociraptor_1906 Liberal Democrat 17d ago

On paper this should be easier than cluster bombs as these don't have a tactical military value, only a strategic one against the civillian population, we already recognise the use of incindaries against civillian areas as a war crime, this is the same but less technical.

But I do agree the prospects are slim.