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and world leaders will meet at 10 am on Thursday at the UN to discuss the situation in Ukraine. You can link up to the broadcast by googling "UNWEB TV."
SunSeeker
(51,545 posts)Until then, the meetings are useless.
Pachamama
(16,886 posts)And if it was, would be a very complicated process and not happen easily or quickly
SunSeeker
(51,545 posts)Pachamama
(16,886 posts)Built to fail
rampartc
(5,400 posts)strange as this may seem russia is a great help in peace keeping in africa, the middle east, and in the former yugoslavia and ussr.
in a (we all hope soon) post putin russia we will want them IN the security council.
ditto china, whatever happens on taiwan.
SunSeeker
(51,545 posts)Seriously?
Russia has supported President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and (since September 2015) with direct military involvement. Russian soldiers personally killed 6,928 Syrian civilians, including 2,042 children. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war
And how was Russia "a great help in peace keeping" in the former Yugoslavia? Russia gave Miloshevic false hope that they would support him militarily (even though they never did) thus emboldening Miloshevic, which extended and worsened the conflict.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Who knew peacekeeping could be so profitable?
Irish_Dem
(46,776 posts)Institutions just let them carry on and commit crimes.
Pachamama
(16,886 posts)And our Constitution and system is certainly being tested and showing that so far
Irish_Dem
(46,776 posts)If this were an audit, we would be flunking it.