Reasons the Geneva Conventions prohibited the annexation of territory by conquest after the Second World War:
1. It is a Pandora’s Box that opens an endless litany of historical grievances and re-adjudication of existing borders through violence.
2. War is terrible and bad; it always and without exception produces atrocities that cannot be forgotten or forgiven, generating new grievances and new wars.
The United States should have spent the last several decades doing everything possible to protect and honor the Geneva Conventions. Instead we gave certain countries carte blanche to ignore them and also ignored them when it suited us. This has now opened the door to a world of hurt.
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