VetOberst

[Arqueòleg 🏺🌈🔻🇵🇸 @arqueoleg]

El Govern d'Espanya és el darrer far de progressisme, democràcia i civilització d'Europa i per això serem objectiu de tota mena d'operacions de desestabilització per part de la ultradreta feixista global. Es així i ho hem d'afrontar.

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

This reminds me of this quote from Otto von Bismarck: "Gentlemen, if you contest the right of conquest, you cannot have read the history of your own country."

Modern people are uncomfortable with the concept of Right of Conquest because it became essentially prohibited after 1945 to invoke it in any conflict, since the UN and the international order don't allow wars of conquests in terms of one country annexing territories of another country by force anymore.

However even the creators of these modern post-1945 ideas never intended to question age old borders which were a result of some conquest centuries ago, when the Right of Conquest was effectively the norm, as Bismarck points out in this quote.

Let me explain what the historical principle in international law and political practice known as Right of Conquest actually was. It did not mean recognizing that some country has the right to go on any war of conquest they want, but that a conquest could be seen as legitimate if the victorious party was able to establish effective control over the territory and the defeated were no longer able to resist or reclaim the territory. Historically, this would be seen as establishing a new legal reality, leading to formal treaties that confirmed the transfer. Such treaties were seen as valid and countries could claim legal right to territories by the virtue of having conquered them in the past.

So even if these conquests resulted out of wars of aggression which would be seen as illegal, the result of the conquest could still be legally affirmed out of pragmatism and "might makes right" (Macht geht vor Recht) principle, a catchphrase specifically describing Otto von Bismarck's Realpolitik and a reality for most of history. In this context the Right of Conquest would be invoked.

This was simply a pragmatic reality in the age where global empires and emerging nation states were regularly going at war with each other and territories switched hands all the time. In this context, the Right of Conquest was actually the only way to ensure peace, because if losing states would not want to accept defeat and transfer of their territories to the winner, peace treaties would be impossible to sign, and therefore leading to perpetual wars all over the world.

However the Right of Conquest became essentially banned in 1945 by UN charters. Modern international relations and conflicts were to be guided by the concept of ex iniuria ius non oritur ("a right does not arise from a wrong"), which asserts that if a war was waged illegally, anything that was gained through such war could not be legally recognized as legitimate anymore. And since all wars of aggression are effectively seen as illegal today, countries could no longer invoke Right of Conquest in international law for any new transfers of land.

The reason why a "ban" of such historically accepted concept like Right of Conquest was made possible is because of the establishment of international order that was actually able to enforce it. All the major post-1945 powers like USA and Soviet Union essentially agreed to it. For example when these countries waged wars and invaded other lands, they did not attempt to annex those lands and claim their territories but instead installed a favorable regime. The post-1945 order turned wars of conquest into regime change wars. The 1945 borders were practically meant to be frozen, to preserve world peace and provide stability, since such order at least in theory discourages countries to invade another, knowing that their territorial gains would never be legally recognized.

So even though the modern 1945 international order banned the Right of Conquest to be invoked in future conflicts, it was never meant to question historic conquests that happened before that. Quite the opposite, because the 1945 borders were meant to be frozen. The modern international order is literally based on the idea that you affirm all the historic conquests that happened before it came into being as legitimate.

But now you often see people who want to project the modern international legal order and morality into earlier times in history, and treat historic conquests as illegitimate, as if the post-1945 international laws existed in 15th century. This is just a result of complete ignorance of these people and/or their inability or dishonesty to form a coherent worldview. It's always completely selective too. For example if you think that Ceuta isn't Spanish because it was gained through some military conquest centuries ago, Morocco literally shouldn't exist as a country by the same logic. Or, to quote Bismarck again, "you cannot have read the history of your own country."

[RuralxData @RuralxData]

Un atasco casi constante y una ampliación a 5 kilómetros por año: el lío de la autopista Sevilla-Cádiz https://t.co/WoQMKGwc4Y

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@casasola_89 Nada nada, seguro no estás así 😘

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@adammajo Que opina usted de la “Catalunya Nord”?

[Arqueòleg 🏺🌈🔻🇵🇸 @arqueoleg]

Vot nazi a Alemanya 1932: 33,1%
Vot nazi a Girona 2026: 41%

[On The Wings of Aviation @OnAviation]

Pues nada, Italia acaba de suspender el acuerdo Schengen con España cerrando las fronteras por mar y por aire segúnla agencia ANSA. Además, reforzará especialmente las fronteras con Francia en colaboración con los agentes galos.
Otros países como Finlandia, República Checa o Suecia están barajando tomar las mismas acciones.
Antes de tomar vuestro vuelo a alguno de los múltiples destinos que conectan España con Italia, informaros por los canales oficiales.

[ECSaharaui @ECSaharaui__]

⚡️Alemania sube el tono y llama al Marruecos a repatriar «inmediatamente y sin condición» a sus nacionales que entraron por la fuerza en Ceuta.

Es el único país de Europa que ha señalado la responsabilidad del #Maruecos en la crisis de Ceuta.

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@GitanoPrincipe No se precipite, una vez se marcha uno, cuesta volver.
Pero la tierra siempre llama a su vuelta a aquellos que la aman de verdad.

[Ruta por el Medievo @RMedievo]

El Norte de África no es castellano debido a que se descubrió el Nuevo Mundo. El Cardenal Cisneros tenía planes interesantes para la zona.

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@GitanoPrincipe Lorca la usaba, un conocido racista.

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@Chinaloverguy @ShangguanJiewen @vtchakarova Well China actively intervened in the Korean War. And in 1979 Vietnam and China had some disputes, the number of casualties were not just a few…

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@ShangguanJiewen @vtchakarova China had military conflicts in Vietnam, Russia and Korea during the past century.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I don't see an attempt here to redefine masculinity, only to say that people are beautiful and have inherent worth, regardless of what they look like. This idea shows up in the Bible.

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight." (1 Peter 3:3-4)

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Psalm 139:14)

"But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'" (1 Samuel 16:7)

[Javier Rubio Donzé @Sr_Donze]

La historia de Ceuta y Melilla, dos ciudades españolas. https://t.co/qS7pEhBulr

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

@Bolitadecurry @junqueras Es usted de las pocas personas que responde aludiendo a la raíz del problema. El gobierno marroquí, y no su pueblo.
Bravo.

[VetOberst @vetoberst0]

Utilizar a seres humanos como arma política, sin importar que les pueda ocurrir.
La miseria moral del gobierno marroquí y de su Rey, parece haberse vuelto a superar a sí misma.

[Javier Rubio Donzé @Sr_Donze]

https://t.co/Y4sgMh8IUv

[THE OBJECTIVE @TheObjective_es]

🔴 URGENTE | Cientos de marroquíes escapan a la carrera de la frontera de El Tarajal y penetran en Ceuta.