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> War is illegal. This idea seems obvious. But before the creation of the United Nations in 1945, no institution had the power to stop countries from going to w
by craftyguy 9y ago
> War is illegal. This idea seems obvious. But before the creation of the United Nations in 1945, no institution had the power to stop countries from going to war with each other. Although there have been some exceptions, the threat of international sanctions and intervention has proven to be an effective deterrent to wars between nations.
While this may have kept the 'superpowers' from engaging in direct warfare with each other, it has done nothing to deter them from engaging in proxy wars with eachother. And in the process, devestating the proxy countries. It seems Bill Gates, through all of his philanthropist work, would have realized this first hand.
- Diederich 9y ago> an effective deterrent to wars between nations Is this false? The last time I looked, the percentage of the human population afflicted by war has been shrinking.
- craftyguy 9y agoMy point is that war is not "illegal", and the current "deterrent" has done nothing to deter proxy wars in places like (as recent examples) Syria and Yemen. It has also done nothing to deter Russia's invasion of Crimea, the US's boondoggle in Iraq and Afghanistan (nor the extremely vague 'war on terror' that enables the US to arbitrarily attack anyone it perceives as a 'terrorist'). The number of folks experiencing war may be shrinking [citation needed], but it's far from being 'illegal.'
- Diederich 9y agoThe wording could have been better, I agree. There are, no doubt, a whole constellation of reasons that war less of a thing.
- DiffEq 9y agoThe UN and it's declaration have had nothing to do with the peace we have seen since 1945 - it has been becasue of Pax Americana...and with that on the way out we will see another major war in short order.