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The goal of a ceasefire isn't to stop a war, it's to provide breathing room for diplomacy and the possibility of a peaceful solution focused on compromise. In
by brador 10y ago
The goal of a ceasefire isn't to stop a war, it's to provide breathing room for diplomacy and the possibility of a peaceful solution focused on compromise. In that, it then makes sense that it fails so often to end a war given the parties inherent hatred required to go to war in the modern age.
- lisivka 10y agoAll is fair in love and war. Ceasefire can be used for any kind of goal, including to gain tactical advantage.
- brador 10y agoTrue, ceasefires can be used for many goals, but the goal of the third party who instigates a ceasefire is usually to bring the warring factions to a negotiating table. At least "officially".
- lisivka 10y agoBring to table and then kill them. Youngest example I know: mass killing of Ukrainian soldiers in Illovaysk by Russian army after promising of fire cease. They break lot of laws, rules and memorandums before that, so one more/one less does not matter. Wars begins where diplomacy ends. To return to diplomacy, defending party must demonstrate power first, to be considered as equal, to talk with. Few thousands of dead Russian soldiers forced Russia to Minks and diplomacy.