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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on July 20, 2011, 06:16:14 PM
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/20/un-climate-change-peacekeeping
Click on the link, its not long.
Just be aware this is a puff piece, and it has no intention of revealing any true motivations.
The focus here is on the island nations that will soon disappear beneath the fantasy of rising ocean levels.
Just another armed force to prevent wars based on global warming...They're only here to help.
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WTH? Has any UN military effort ever been successful?
It's time for VWRC to break out the volcano generator and create more small islands for those people to move to.
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WTH? Has any UN military effort ever been successful?
It's time for VWRC to break out the volcano generator and create more small islands for those people to move to.
Closest any UN effort has come to being successful was the Korean conflict, back in the fifties. Thank Dog they stopped that just in the nick of time; it'd have ruined a perfect losing streak.
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Meaningless dithering. The article does not describe a pre-emptive role, but the normal UN peacekeeping which is usually only inserted in a conflict zone with the MUTUAL consent of the principal parties to the conflict. Unless and until there is an actual armed conflict brought about by rising sea levels, AND the combatants ask for UN peacekeeping, this would never come up.
Contrary to the snark, UN peacekeepers actually do perform a useful function, but it is only within a certain particular envelope in the spectrum of conflict and politics on the ground. It fails when one or both sides reach the point where they decide they have more to gain by renewing the conflict than continuing the status quo with a buffer between them.
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Just waiting on Gina to show up with a purple helmet comment. :popcorn: (you know it's coming!)