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If there is an ongoing hot war you are not sending peacekeepers, you are sending mercenaries. If the war is over why do you need peacekeepers?

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[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

In international politics there is no is and ought.

"The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must".

That's Kissinger I think. This is the much vaunted judeo christian values and western culture people talk about so much.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, that's my point.