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This might seem odd coming from a pacifist, but why do we in the West so often always tell people in dictatorships and other horrible places to be peaceful and refrain from violence? Many countries like the US, China, Russia, etc. spend trillions on arms and export arms worth billions, so what kind of example is that? And why would people elsewhere not follow the violent way?
And let's face it, without violence dictators usually don't leave office just like that. Without past violence many places would still be dictatorships today. Often it took a civil war to get rid of them.
In short, I think those naive people like the pope and Western presidents and prime ministers should just shut up and stop preaching their hippie wisdom from their comfortable places like the Vatican.
Because we see the outcome which is most those who are not fighting suffering like old people and children.Look at Sudan for instances.Most casualties are not fighters.
Because we see the outcome which is most those who are not fighting suffering like old people and children.Look at Sudan for instances.Most casualties are not fighters.
Well, they did have a civil war in Sudan, and now at least the south is rid of the Islamic north.
Of course war is ugly and stupid, but that's human, I'm afraid. Yes, there are innocent victims, but can one accept a dictator just to avoid that? Basically appeasement? Didn't work with Hitler, either. Sanctions only hit the innocent as well.
Governments only fear violence, pacific ways of protests have been turned into toothless tigers for quite some time in order to prevent change. It is the same in the West if we are honest. We are only allowed to take action that doesn't challenge the status quo. Mere symbolism.
Maybe if we had a real UNO that can't be vetoed and manipulated, a UNO force could simply take out dictators in the name of all of humanity. That guy in the Ukraine for instance is quite a nasty guy, there was a report on how he got to and stays in power.
Police launch new attack on anti-govt protesters in Kiev, as death tolls rises to 25
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It's an internal matter of another country. It's not our business even if Ukraine is a potential ally.
[we should stay neutral]
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Oh yeah, there was no "Wall" speech by Reagan, and no statue of him in downtown Warsaw either. 
