Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
The trajectory of world politics and rules of engagement has been consistently in the direction of violence reduction for decades and centuries.

We take baby steps but slowly over time those steps add up and the statistical measure of violence and war goes down.

Progress is cemented by putting in place frameworks of engagement which reduce violence and war.

Any country that is accepted into the elite groups like the G20 are tacitly agreeing to abide by those frameworks.

Russia's illegal 19th century style land grab is not just selfish. It is slap in the face to the progress in violence reduction that the world is slowly but steadily working its way towards and a terrible example to set to developing countries who aspire for membership of the elite.

Vladimir Putin must be made to pay for dragging the world backwards with his thuggish brutality.
The trajectory of world politics and rules of engagement has been consistently in the direction of violence reduction for decades and centuries.

We take baby steps but slowly over time those steps add up and the statistical measure of violence and war goes down.

Progress is cemented by putting in place frameworks of engagement which reduce violence and war.
Can you put that into the context of the Vietnam war where there where there were more bombs dropped on the Ho Chi Min Trail than in the entire second world war.

Or the invasion of Iraq

The destruction of Libya

The present arming of rebels and bombing in Syria the bombing in Afghanistan and the 20 other counties the US has bombed since WW2 killing an estimated 20 million people.

Add to that the Mother of All Bombs.


Any country that is accepted into the elite groups like the G20 are tacitly agreeing to abide by those frameworks.
A
tacit agreement
then the US does not have to abide by it for we have just been told they only recognise singed agreements.

Tell us about the US land grab in their invasion of Granada in contravention to a UN resolution.

Tell us how many bases the US has in other countries that they refuse to give up since they defeated Hitler in WW2, (we all saw the Hollywood movies)