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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Foreign infervention is almost always the worst possible option.

It only makes sense in the case of active mass genocides (think WWII, Cambodia or Serbia). Toppling an oppresive but stable regime through foreign power always ends in destabilisation and even more suffering to the people.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Foreign infervention is almost always the worst possible option.

    Agreed.

    Anyone who suggests otherwise needs to look at the very long history of foreign attempts at "intervention" in Afghanistan.

    The country was left worse than it was after each of those many failed attempts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Serbia? Serbia (SR Yugoslavia) did a lot of nasty shit, but 99' intervention was not a product of a genocide, let alone a massive one.

    UN ruling in question, BBC article.

    Crimes against humanity and war crimes did take place, it said, but "the exactions committed by Milosevic's regime cannot be qualified as criminal acts of genocide, since their purpose was not the destruction of the Albanian ethnic group... but its forceful departure from Kosovo".

    Srebreica was a genocide, but was not perpotrated by actual Serbia, if it makes any difference...

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