Wars aren’t ended with treaties all the time though. For instance North/South Korea haven’t signed anything. Russia and Japan never signed anything after world war 2. I would say Russia signed the Minsk Agreements with Ukraine, but clearly that war is ongoing. China and Taiwan haven’t signed anything which is ongoing. The U.S. never declared war on Afghanistan or Iraq, so their was never real peace treaties, but rather peace agreements I guess.
I think the question in the 21st century might be, what is war? What is the scope that defines it, and who has to recognize it for it to “exist.”. Is Israel at war with Palestine, Serbia, Yemen, Iran? Was Iran at war with India? Is India at war with China? What is a cold war, and is the U.S. thus still at war with Russia and Iran seperately or together now?
What the hell do we call the U.S.'s operations that have taken place either directly, indirectly, or covertly in South America… And are all countries inevitably at war so long as their economies are clashing within a capitalistic structure with finite resources.
To define peace, we may need to first define war, or video versa
So your response to my comment about this article being nitpicky about terms like: treaties, truce, agreements, etc is to be more nitpicky?
Everything you mentioned had some form of diplomatic talks that ended active fighting (or lead to withdrawal of hostile troops).
It’s just odd. You don’t need to reach to make JD Vance look stupid. There are plenty of things to shit on him for. But saying “diplomacy is what ends conflicts” is not really one of the things he’s said I’d disagree with.
Wars aren’t ended with treaties all the time though. For instance North/South Korea haven’t signed anything. Russia and Japan never signed anything after world war 2. I would say Russia signed the Minsk Agreements with Ukraine, but clearly that war is ongoing. China and Taiwan haven’t signed anything which is ongoing. The U.S. never declared war on Afghanistan or Iraq, so their was never real peace treaties, but rather peace agreements I guess.
I think the question in the 21st century might be, what is war? What is the scope that defines it, and who has to recognize it for it to “exist.”. Is Israel at war with Palestine, Serbia, Yemen, Iran? Was Iran at war with India? Is India at war with China? What is a cold war, and is the U.S. thus still at war with Russia and Iran seperately or together now?
What the hell do we call the U.S.'s operations that have taken place either directly, indirectly, or covertly in South America… And are all countries inevitably at war so long as their economies are clashing within a capitalistic structure with finite resources.
To define peace, we may need to first define war, or video versa
So your response to my comment about this article being nitpicky about terms like: treaties, truce, agreements, etc is to be more nitpicky?
Everything you mentioned had some form of diplomatic talks that ended active fighting (or lead to withdrawal of hostile troops).
It’s just odd. You don’t need to reach to make JD Vance look stupid. There are plenty of things to shit on him for. But saying “diplomacy is what ends conflicts” is not really one of the things he’s said I’d disagree with.