• ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    he doesn’t get to invade and then negotiate to keep part of the place he invaded

    Are you at all familiar with any history at all? How do you think such treaties usually go? Or did you think borders spent the last couple millenia shifting mysteriously without reason?

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      7 months ago

      The wider international community has largely rejected wars of conquest as legitimate in modern times.

      The exact same argument could be applied to Israel and e.g. the Golan Heights, but I don’t think you’ll find that to be a particularly popular position.