I love the Maldives but if they become a haven to escape sanctions, it could be taken in a few hours, confiscate the yachts, then return Maldives to their government.
And before that, there was the highly picaresque story of Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking (and ensuing murder of American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer). There are so many twists and turns in this story, involving diplomatic crises between the US, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and various Palestinian groups that it beggars belief.
mole, a bad action is still a bad action. I'm in the us and I can admit that bombing endless wedding parties in Afghanistan in an attempt to kill terrorist is wrong. That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
So, your takeaway from the whole Ukraine episode is that it's perfectly fine for large countries to invade small countries for utterly farcical reasons?
To restate your idea: You want to invade a country at peace, kill its citizens and overthrow its government just to inconvenience some rich thugs.
and by that logic all poor countries with rampant corruption should have legal protection if they attack Switzerland or any tax havens which do not share data. Off course, not possible in reality due to difference in the countries' powers. Ukraine has galvanized the Western world unlike any other event prior to it, however it is mostly because it is immediate, has visual impact and the impacted are similar in appearances.
an event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation.
Is there something in the above definition that preculudes it from being used to refer to a genocide? And a more pertinent question: Was there a point to you comment apart from the feigned indignation?
