Support for military action should depend on rule of law
Last war
Your correspondent quotes a familiar word from Einstein from the World War II, that the rods and stones that may be true in time. Nowadays, the fact that nuclear weapons are much larger may mean that there will be no WWIV. According to the United States, Professor Jeffrey Sachs would end in two short hours and with our tendency to increase a nuclear-output for taste.
Perhaps Iran wanted to improve its own nuclear arsenal, considering that Israel has a deterrent. Israel had nuclear weapons directly violating the Treaty of Prevention of Nuclear Soliferation (NPT), which has been rejected to sign since the 1960s. According to his own laws, the US is forbidden to provide assistance to countries with weapons of mass destruction contrary to NPT. With its estimated 90 to 200 nuclear war titles, Israel rejected the control by De Iaea.
Annabel Russell, Benta, Sri Lanka
The laws need to be rewritten
Israel and the US strikes on Iran are the last in a long series of recent attacks in the name of self -defense. Examples of the US -led Afghanistan (2001) intervention; US intervention in Iraq (2003); Russia’s intervention in Georgia (2008); NATO’s intervention in Libya led to the fall of Gaddafi (2011); Regional actions against the United States against individuals such as US Laden and Abu Khatallah (2011/14); Military operations against the US -led Islamic state (2014); The US targeted the assassination of the Iranian General Soleimani (2020); Russia’s attack on Ukraine (2022); and Israel’s Gaza invasion (2023). All of the ongoing states are branded by self -defense (Article 51 requirement), because this is the only use of force (ie without the authority of the Security Council) in international law. Armed strong retaliation is not legal.
Before the UN Charter (1945), international law, despite the attempt to declare it illegal in 1928, tolerated to resort to war. Perhaps it is time to accept the truth and to accept certain types of force in open parameters (for example, the first aggression).
Ciprian Radavoi, Professor, School of Law and Justice, Southern Queensland University
Forum
Desperate need
When President Trump pointed out that the US could intervene directly in Iran about a week ago, millions of inhabitants came out of the Iranian capital and some sought security in other countries. The discourse of the US after the US leaving big bombs to nuclear facilities at the weekend will probably contribute more to the migration from Iran. There is a record number of refugees in the world that escapes war, persecution, discrimination and drought. Only two million people in Sudan have made desperate and dangerous journeys since the outbreak of the civil war, and now he is living in dangerous conditions depending on the heroic efforts of aid organizations.
The worldwide appearance of refugees became more difficult with the Trump administration abandoning most of the US overseas aid flows. For this reason, a few days ago, Australia, refugee boat arrival in difficult conditions to carry out the detention facility in Nauru with a special company to remind a contract still a great amount of disappointment is disappointing (“Taxpayer Offshore DelEyalıtih Firms”, 19/6). Nauru Facility has been a source of misery, despair and bad health for the refugees held there for years. Offshore detention will stop misery and waste, and re -guiding the money can wonder for refugees living in raw camps with insufficient food and health support.
Andrew Trempath, Blackburn
LAND TAX CANSIONS
An empty housing land tax seems to be a good idea to encourage the fullness, but in order to provide effective execution, it seems in pieces, without the central registration of empty properties ,, inefficient and unjust (“Thousands of empty house lock tax”, 24/6).
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills
Inform the empty positions
Authorities cannot be desperate about the houses to es escape from Victoria’s empty housing land tax ”. Of course, people are aware of the houses that have been empty for years in their neighborhoods. I can think of three or four on the neck of the forest. A boundary-made structure was empty before Covid. Their beliefs affect the belief that empty properties are not “central registration .. Perhaps the local councils or the Victoria government can establish a site where such properties can be reported. Authorities can then make some investigation. Or is this too much problem?
Deborah Morrison, Malvern East
Dead wood
The state’s liberal party should pay attention to the advice of Terry Barnes (“A towel was given by Terry”, 24/6). He has to choose the candidates who make hard gardens and remove the dead wood in the party. The results of the federal elections in Victoria should be a good indication of what could happen in the state elections in November 2026.
Christine Hammett, Richmond
Dangerous
The river River that saved a village when you landed at the door of war ”(24/6) is a tragic story that encompasses ways to survive in this refugee camp in Thailand near Myanmar. In addition, it offers a timely reflection of millions of people in other refugee camps in the world, where daily life is full of danger and uncertainty. Thinking about children living in such conditions is an anatem about what childhood should be.
Judith Morrison, Nunawading
Security with Lot
I also had problems with Vic Security Questions Service (Letters, 24/6). Actually, we really laughed while trying to find enough. My father’s favorite Pizza Hill? Good grief! I don’t know, and it’s not like that either. Is my mother’s friend’s name 50 years ago? What? There is no opportunity to compensate for your own questions. I hope I can remember the answers I have to compensate.
Claire Jones, Canterbury
Hard to the summit
While your correspondent burns the ugly complexity of security questions for online web access, the answers should not be correct, but only unforgettable. “What is your father’s favorite Pizza Hill?” When asked, “Possum”; N What is your eldest child’s middle name? ”,“ Key-Halka ”. You won’t forget them!
Peter Price, Southbank
Be consistent
Regarding the security questions, these organizations don’t know if your answers are correct, and you can write everything you want as long as you can remember your answers. You can even try the same complex answers for each question.
Alan Inchley, Frankston
Super solution
There is a simple solution to Jim Chalmers’s retirement problem: limit super balances to $ 3 million. Any amount above this limit should be withdrawn on June 30 each year. How to invest, but pay full tax on the return. This resolves a number of problems, including Super’s use for tax minimization, and of course, wandering around the thorny problem of taxation. The impact on income will be urgent and significant and its original intention will be restored as a super justice and pension financing mechanism.
Angus McLleod, Cremorne
Window to touch
We receive a two -hour fee when we first touch the reporters who complain about the people who go to the trams and buses do not touch. So when I go to Peter Mac and touch the two -hour window and touch the number 19 in Coburg, I don’t run away from a fee. The same applies to if I change the trams to achieve a desired target or if I need it to a bus. Unlike others, I see almost everyone touched if I travel on a tram. And perhaps like me on Peter Mac, they just go home in the two -hour fee window.
Lou Wilksch, Coburg
And something else
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Nuclear risk
Who is comfortable with Trump’s access to nuclear weapons as well as irregular?
Malcolm McDonald, Burwood
Film DR Strangelove Our new reality. Today’s characters are even more ridiculous, but not strangely fun.
Cherryl Barassi, St Kilda
A ceasefire – how easy it was this? Perhaps the United States may use the same approach to ensure that Israel stops killing innocent women and children in Gaza.
David Parker, Geelong West
War sprinkle
If Trump produces a permanent ceasefire with a world order, he will need new strategies (and not yet shown) to manage peace.
Kevan Porter, Alphington
Trump did not make America wonder again, how will Iran make it wonderful again?
Randall Bradshaw, Fitzroy
Some figures in the right -wing media are stuck in Prime Minister Anthony Arbanese for slow support for US bombings. I wonder how happy his followers will be if he causes fuels in Bowers, which hit the $ 3 sign.
Nick Brennan, Rowville
Besides
Did the worker government, who know our strange weather, have spent all this money on a salt purification facility?
Patricia Rivett, Ferntree Gully
An AFL player (“Saint’s labeling tactics were questioned and fined”, 22/6) – including knee, mockery and continuous hit – is largely ignored when a 50 -meter penalty is given for a few wrong steps? Is it a “most fair” lost concept in our game?
Glenda Johnston, Queensclifff
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Finally
Amazon workers must be looking forward to returning to their modest abods after a difficult day to see the wedding of the big boss’s TV news. Will they be satisfied with their roles in collecting funds for a 25 million dollar wedding? And the bride will be amazing in a dress worth $ 2 million.
John Groom, Bentleight
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