I think the crucial thing is to find a mechanism for enforcing international law — specifically any war crimes or aggression. We don’t want a world police force — or at least I don’t, and there are good reasons to fear such a horrible organization — so the only alternative is to somehow authorize the citizenry to oust the war criminal leader(s) and take control of the government, to rule decently and properly. How could such a thing be authorized? By the ICJ. They did order Russia to stop the invasion, but of course they were ignored. We should have a system whereby any two of these UN branches (the UNSC, the GA, or the ICJ or ICC) can jointly declare the leadership illegitimate because it is violating their orders. Then, we could assure the citizens and/or other government officials of the offending country that they are authorized to capture the criminal leader and turn him over for prosecution by the ICC in The Hague. Moreover, we might want to promise to reward them for doing so. A “bounty” on Putin’s head. (I can think of $1 billion palace on the Black Sea that would be a nice award for anyone who succeeds.). If the criminal leader resists and is defended and is injured or killed in the process, such an authorized group of resisters can be assured that they will not be prosecuted by any UN body for making the attempt. But the authorization should have to be approved by any two of those bodies, maybe even three, for obvious reasons.

So how about that for a new international law?