Reply #11: Forget your illusions

[Ottmar]

When nations go to war, it's not for humanitarian reasons, democracy or freedom, it's always for their own interests. Nobody offers troops or money for "nothing".

BTW it isn't humanitarian to wait until the situation is escalating -- like in Sudan today -- and send some troops after the killings began. Humanitarian is to prevent such escalation. So the right question would be, why did Russia, Germany, France and the rest of the world nothing to avoid the situation in Sudan? The escalation didn't come by surprise, the signals were clear. But it's always the same, you can find many examples for that: Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria and so on.