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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

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The International Community's Responsibility to Protect, You Know, Syria

If you violate that justification for your sovereignty, the international community has an obligation to do something about it. They have a kind of hierarchy of things you can do, starting with push and pull. You go down the list and eventually you get to military intervention at the bottom - which they say is the last thing. I think what happened, there was more of a willingness in the 90s and in right at the turn of the century,. And then, you know, when Trump got elected he basically said we're not going to do any of this kind of stuff.

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