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Old 02-24-2022, 12:58 PM   #407
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by Goriders View Post
The UN was formed after WW2 to guard against future conflicts.

Since there haven’t been many large scale wars it has morphed into a self serving bureaucracy. It’s more concerned with sustainable development and social engineering now.

Zero threat to a dictator threatening its neighbour. NATO is probably the same.
The problem is that WWII and the lessons we learned from it faded into generational memory.

The lesson wasn't learned to the point they would resound in our bones.

We are more akin to the Chamberlain era right now where the world had assumed that Hitler/Putin could be appeased and his moves for lebenstraum (living space) predicated on nonsense about protecting German speaking people in other countries (Russian minorities in the two Ukranian regions that Putin recognized independence for) were all from the same playbook.

This is a dangerous game and we are seeing the first major modern 21st century warfare between 1st world nations play out.
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