Sam Smith - One thing the media and politicians forget to talk about: war doesn't work, a fact currently being demonstrated in Ukraine and the Middle East. Countries spend huge sums and years of struggle on the assumption that war can work, but at some point should at least discuss the alternatives more frequently.
Take the Middle East for example. The Palestinian-Israel conflict has been going on for over seven decades as noted by Wikipedia:
[] After World War II, in 1947, the United Nations adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine, which recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem.This Partition Plan was accepted by the Jews but rejected by the Arabs. Immediately after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the plan as Resolution 181, a civil war broke out and the plan was not implemented. The day after the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, neighboring Arab countries invaded the former British Mandate and engaged Israeli forces in the First Arab–Israeli War.[]
While the diplomatic approach failed, it was a lot cheaper in terms of lives and money than achieving nothing from a war. One might imagine that could be true in Ukraine if the Russians, say, offered to pay a large sum for access to Crimean harbors while leaving Crimea in Ukraine.
We don't have to take moral position, simply a wiser one where one easily discovers that there are easier and less dangerous solutions than just warfare.
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