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In the legal profession, it's about opinion
Only in extremely difficult cases. In most cases, it's got nothing to do with opinion and everything to do with the application of facts to legal principles.
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I happen to be using a definition that I believe makes the most sense
That's super, but completely irrelevant to a legal discussion.
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Whatever you wish to call that in-between position is irrelevant
No, it's the crux of your argument.
Oh wait, I get it, you're right. It is completely irrelevant.
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Not really. Because the document in question is a "resolution". Its is not as such a "treaty".
VC Law on Treaty wrote:
“treaty†means an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation
Tell me when you get tired of getting it wrong...
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The UN cannot tell a participant to a conflict that they cannot continue fighting.
Of course they can, and do so all the time.
You really don't have a clue, do you?
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But the nations in question at all times have the right to continue fighting if they wish.
No, they don't. They can choose to ignore the law and keep fighting though, which they sometimes do.
Doesn't make it legal.
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Im just surprised that someone who claims to have a degree in internation law has never once been exposed to the relatively simple concept that if two nations go to war and never sign a peace treaty ending that war, that they are... still at war.
No, they're not. Your textbook must be an old edition, maybe pre-1945?
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Quite a bit less then "half the world", but yeah
No, a lot more than half the world. Israel has peace treaties with only Jordan and Egypt from the Arab states. Are they then "at war" with all the others? And with over 75% of the African states?
It doesn't make any sense, nor match reality in any way. Which, coming from you is hardly suprising...
Well anyway, as fun as this is, it's quite pointless to continue unless you bring up some legal arguments.
Making fun of your made-up definition is amusing the first time, but its getting tiring...