{"id":73104,"date":"2025-07-28T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/27\/global-moral-consensus-is-just-wishful-thinking"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:26:09","slug":"global-moral-consensus-is-just-wishful-thinking-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73104","title":{"rendered":"Global moral consensus is just wishful thinking | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex Watson <\/strong>writes that moralising over Putin and Netanyahu is nothing without enforceable law, while <strong>Ravishankar Kalyanasundaram <\/strong>says the \u2018rules-based international order\u2019 was curated by the west<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion piece (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jul\/20\/gaza-ukraine-peace-out-of-reach\">From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach \u2013 and the reason isn\u2019t only political, 20 July<\/a>), Simon Tisdall says \u201cending major conflicts, and easing the suffering of millions, is a moral imperative that demands a determined collective response from all concerned. That way lies peace. That way lies salvation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If&nbsp;that is really the case then all hope is lost. There already is a \u201cdetermined collective response\u201d from all concerned, which is a pledge to fight to the bitter end, whatever the cost to their victims in lives or suffering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/27\/global-moral-consensus-is-just-wishful-thinking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Watson writes that moralising over Putin and Netanyahu is nothing without enforceable law, while Ravishankar Kalyanasundaram says the \u2018rules-based international order\u2019 was curated by the westIn his opinion piece (From Gaza to Ukraine, peace always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1247,2230,62,927,734,3039,930,84,818,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-british-empire","category-india","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-israel-gaza-war","category-ukraine","category-united-nations","category-vladimir-putin","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73104\/revisions\/73105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}