> Muddy the waters further and nations will be even less likely to intervene than they already are. Actually, more importantly, muddy the waters further and it

> Muddy the waters further and nations will be even less likely to intervene than they already are. Actually, more importantly, muddy the waters further and it also becomes easier for bad actors to justify intervention. Like Russia in Ukraine (to cite just the latest target of its ethnic Russian victimization playbook). Or the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even legitimately good intentions can have disastrous results. At any given moment there are minorities everywhere that need defending, often adjacent to a nation where their group is a majority, and if you give nations moral authority to intervene whenever a minority culture is targeted... who's going to take the blame for the real, physical bloodshed? International law is a very blunt instrument. It's the least capable framework for handling any kind of nuance, let alone culturally relative nuance.