this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
367 points (99.2% liked)

World News

54494 readers
2758 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes, because that worked so great in Somalia.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What exactly are you referring to?

Are you suggesting world nations intervened in Somalia to satisfy their obligations under the genocide conventions? Because that didn't happen.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

So you're suggesting that invasions in order to prevent genocide work differently than all other interventions? You invade, say "Hello, we're here to prevent genocide", everyone makes peace, situation stabilizes and you can leave? Because 'normal' invasions (Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti...) tend to result in a shitshow and don't improve the situation much. Even UN's own research say that those only 'sometimes' work and domestic cooperation and consent is the most important factor in success [1]. So basically if you have a recognized government that asks for help intervention may be effective. Throwing more troops in the middle of an ongoing civil war most likely won't.

  1. Donine, T., Khan, M., Landau, A., Solomon, D., & Woocher, L. (2025). Using peace operations to help prevent mass atrocities: Results from interviews with experienced practitioners.
[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You're just mixing two different topics and trying to make them fit your argument.

You name examples of them never doing what they agreed they would do as a reason to not do it...