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Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less interest in the conquest of land, states increasingly use economic or cyber means to battle their adversaries. Such a turn is not free from perils but should perhaps be welcomed as an alternative to previous methods of war. By analysing these new restraints, Blix rejects the fatalistic assumption that there will always be war. He submits that today leading powers are saying farewell to previous patterns of war, instead choosing to continue their competition for power and influence on the battlefields of economy and information.
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Let's talk about the good man who always assumed that crises could be solved with diplomacy.
The competition between states without war is the counter-model to the eternal repetition of escalation which has always led to war and conflict.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
Hans Blix
Nobody wants to be humiliated. Humiliation leads to bad things.
Hans Blix
The consequences of the Iraq war have changed the whole course of history. Based on a lie by the US to take revenge for 9/11, the entire world's history was changed and we are still feeling the effects.
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Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction but the hawks in the white house wanted war and ultimately did not change the entire world's history for the better and that's putting it nicely.
In an in-depth interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired politician and diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as head of the UN Arms Control Commission and the legacy he will leave behind for future generations. The 94-year-old Swede held the post during the war on terror between 2000 and 2003, becoming a key player in a global crisis.
While one war fades from history, another has begun.
Humanity is doomed to repeat its patterns and mistakes.
The greatest threat to humanity is the use of weapons of mass destruction, overpopulation with not enough resources, climate change.
Hans Blix
R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit
One could draw parallels between the Americans claiming that 9/11 justifying the Iraq and Afghan wars to Israel claiming that 10/7 justifies the current Palestine war.