{"id":205877,"date":"2022-02-28T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205877"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:37:31","slug":"ukraine-versus-iraq-humanitarian-intervention-versus-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/ukraine-versus-iraq-humanitarian-intervention-versus-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine versus Iraq — Humanitarian Intervention versus Invasion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a period of intense diplomatic activity regarding Ukraine, President Joe Biden has agreed to meet President Vladimir Putin — the subject of widespread commentary (Ukraine tensions: Biden agrees in principle to summit with Putin<\/em><\/a>, BBC News<\/em>, 21 February 2022; Biden Agrees \u2018in Principle\u2019 to Meeting with Putin<\/em><\/a>, The New York Times,<\/em> 21 February 2022). However the talks proposed by France will only take place on one condition — if Russia does not invade its neighbour, the White House has said (Ukraine crisis: Biden agrees ‘in principle’ to meeting with Putin as long as Russia does not invade<\/em><\/a>, Euronews<\/em>, 21 February 2022).<\/p>\n

With\u00a0the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention”\u00a0— let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.<\/p>\n

TO CONTINUE READING<\/a> Go to Original \u2013 laetusinpraesens.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Anthony Judge is a member of the<\/em> TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a> and mainly known for his career at the Union of International Associations<\/a> (UIA), where he has been Director of Communications and Research, as well as Assistant Secretary-General. He was responsible at the UIA for the development of interlinked databases and for publications based on those databases, mainly the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential<\/a>, the Yearbook of International Organizations<\/a>, and the International Congress Calendar<\/a>. Judge has also personally authored a collection of over 1,600 documents of relevance to governance and strategy-making. All these papers are freely available on his personal website Laetus in Praesens<\/a>. Now retired from the UIA, he is continuing his research within the context of an initiative called Union of Imaginable Associations. Judge is an Australian born in Egypt, a thinker, an author, and lives in Brussels. His <\/em>TMS articles may be accessed HERE<\/a><\/em>. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

25 Feb 2022 – Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War” – With\u00a0the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention”\u00a0— let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":132665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[960,2197,120,1035,2456,950,741,86,1728,253,278,961,70],"class_list":["post-205877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-balkans","tag-biden","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-humanitarian-intervention","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-occupation","tag-peacekeeping","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}