So it’s not a wildfire?

Thank God for this gift

Arming and training a militia to topple a government is what you’d define as a civil war?

Citation

What happened after they toppled ghadafi is a civil war but it was a state sponsored militia by European countries to get to that point.

Ignorance doesn’t mean this didn’t happen

Yemen Libya Sahel

Rule number 4: get better at implementing rules (1) and (2)

How so?

I’d like to preemptively note that the UN resolution regarding Afghanistan didn’t happen until December while the invasion began in September.

NATO has nothing to do with the UN.

They later did make it a UN mission but from September through December it was an unsanctioned invasion

It could have been done diplomatically but that wasn’t even attempted. And if supporting and sheltering terrorists is the main factor then I can think of some of their allies that they’ve yet to act against

I do concede the point that they’ve improved. Though there do remain other examples such as Lybia, Saudi campaign support against Yemen, and how the French have conducted themselves in the Sahel

Article 5 is NATO not UN. And multiple European countries partook in operations there against the Taliban (the Afghani government at the time) not just Al Qaeda before the UN mission became a thing.

You can also look at Iraq in 2003 which was neither in response to an attack or UN sanctioned.

As for foreign policy each country does maintain its own foreign policy to a certain extent. And yet the largest countries in the EU are staunch allies of Israel.

The invasion of Afghanistan only later became a UN operation, after the invasion began. And Iraq was the aggressor in the 80s not 2003.

I’m not encouraging, defending, or supporting the Taliban in any way. It was just the first example that came to mind. Hell the Iraq invasion would’ve made a better example as that had nothing to do with the UN.

And I’m not saying there isn’t a divide in Europe on Israel either.

But the countries in Europe for the most part have taken a stance to support Israel (examples being UK, FRANCE, and Germany) while also leading a military operation on a sovereign country.

There are many other examples and more the further back in time you’re willing to go. The French campaign in Algeria for instance.

Europe like other powers respects international law when convenient.

Look at western Europe when it comes to the Taliban vs Israel. They assisted a US invasion of Afghanistan and they support Israel.

Probably by US support to pressure Canada

Despots against democracy

Wait so is achieving the same result with bloodshed preferable?

So who’s going to pay to rebuild these people’s homes?

It’s not the only ship to pass either

Yeah my thought was that you can do that anywhere if you had a ton of money

Idk man once the US stops fucking with other countries economies they tend to start doing well.

As for one party states, try and defy the two headed snake we call democracy here. The a totalitarian state dressed up as a sham republic. Think of all the things everyone agrees on but the federal government vehemently opposes or vice versa

I agree with you on the use of public funds. But a ban goes beyond that.

And it’s not that the religion enables evil deeds. Evil deeds exist independent of religion. Because some people use it as a thin veil over their actions doesn’t mean it’s the root cause