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pelpotronic t1_j6pg9nf wrote

Sorry, remind me... What is "legally binding" at the international level?

And who are you going to complain if some country reneged on their promises? The "lord of all the countries in the world" maybe?

To be clear, might makes right at that level, whether the might is economy or military - but basically a threat of breaking their country nose.

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autotldr t1_j6pfve4 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)


> Pope Francis has demanded that foreign powers stop plundering Africa's natural resources for the "Poison of their own greed" after he landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a trip to two African nations.

> The 86-year-old Francis is the first pontiff to visit DR Congo since Pope John Paul II did so in 1985, when the country was still known as Zaire.

> Calling Congo's vast mineral and natural wealth a "Diamond of creation", Francis demanded that foreign interests stop carving up the country for their own interests and acknowledge their role in the economic "Enslavement" of the Congolese people.


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onlyfacts2000 t1_j6pfhs6 wrote

Yeah and the treatment of a murderer is to put him in jail, even though it's a free country. Crazy right?

Context matters, and your comment is attempting to spread a false narrative which completely makes no sense and as such, there is no need to even engage with your argument and prove you wrong, as you miss the entire point.

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