I hate war. However, I am a student of it. Perhaps a poor student. However there has developed over hundreds a years a series of conventions and law that applies to war. Some of them familiar: Intentionally targeting and murdering innoc...See More
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Owen Abrey I certainly don't mean to offend by perhaps this over-simplification, but the examples are to lay out the conventions of war which pertain to using land concessions for peace. If Canada validly owns southern Ontario, then the convention is valid. It was the losing side which sued for peace
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Owen Abrey
What other option did they have? The American Revolution was in peril. When a side is losing, they will concede what ever they need to stop being killed, and those concessions may reflect the degree they are in trouble. And on the other ...See More
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Owen Abrey (Something we like to forget)
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Owen Abrey
They were the settlements of 3 nations whose property was conquered, and who were beaten badly. And there was an understanding that for Egypt for example, they were losing ground to the Nile. Syria lost the West Bank, East Bank, Golan, an...See More
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Owen Abrey
Forgive me if this has come across as patronizing. That was not my intent. It is so easy to get caught up in the very real human drama, that these legal conventions and a broad historical perspective is lost. War is hell. It makes even ...See More
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