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Israel requests to convene the Security Council, in the face of "a flagrant violation" of "sovereignty, of international law" "a concrete threat to the peace and security of the entire region." (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

and the US is for the most part pretty careful about escalation management.

How's that?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The US is always at war in at least one place somewhere on earth, and has learned from painful experience how easy it is to ratchet a conflict up into a bigger deal than it needed to be and how difficult to ratchet it back down, so they pay close attention now to when they’re crossing certain lines especially when nuclear weapons are involved.

Put it another way, all the nations of the world all go to the same bar, and a lot of them have guns and split personalities, and they spend every night playing cards and cheating and there’s always at least one fist fight, and somehow it’s been about 75 years since anybody got shot.

https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/programs-and-projects/kissinger-center-papers/escalation-management-ukraine-response-russias-manipulation-risk

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kissenger?!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 1 year ago

If you’re gonna learn to understand about war and war crimes and escalations, you might as well go to the old masters in the field

(It’s just his name on the school; the paper’s got nothing to do with him. He was safely in hell long before it was written.)

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