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DIVIDE AND DESTROY

15-05-2026

Today's warleaders  do not divide and rule, they divide and destroy. Putin's war against brother Ukrainian people has descended into senseless, inhuman, genocidal killing and destroying already in its fifth year. Trump's war against Iran began with massive airstrikes and nobody knows what next and for what purpose. Netanyahu destroyed Gaza, South Lebanon and parts of Beiruth, so called in self-defense. Modern weapons allow the military to kill and destroy at random and without any concern for the thousands of innocent human beings. 




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Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau

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This fifth and final volume offers a critical assessment of the state of the law of nations. In the twenty first century the world needs true global law anchored in the dignity of the human person rather than weak international law built on the interests of major sovereign states.

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Since 1989, we refer to the whole post-war period as the “Cold War Era”. Such was not the case in 1968. At the time, the Cold War – in our perception – was behind us. We no longer felt to be in the midst of it. Europeans on the Western side of the Iron Curtain0 felt relatively at ease with Europe’s division. The era of Détente as we called it, was0 considered to be a fairly stable and long-lasting political condition, even after Soviet tanks crushed Dubcek’s socialism with a human face in Pragu