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PM 'open' to sending NZ peacekeepers to Ukraine (www.1news.co.nz)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If there is an ongoing hot war you are not sending peacekeepers, you are sending mercenaries. If the war is over why do you need peacekeepers?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If there is an ongoing hot war you are not sending peacekeepers, you are sending mercenaries.

The article says he was asked about if there was a cease fire:

Asked whether New Zealand would be prepared to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of any ceasefire, Christopher Luxon told RNZ that was something he would consider.

If the war is over why do you need peacekeepers?

NZ do a lot of peacekeeping operations. In places that were previously at war. What do you think peacekeepers do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Peacekeepers are trigger wires. They act as a casus belli when one of them are killed.

What do you think they do? Do you think they patrol the streets like cops do? Do you think they are building houses and schools? Do you think they are escorting old ladies across the street?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think peace keepers mostly help train local security forces so locals are helping locals instead of foreign forces telling citizens what to do.

Its something you could easily look up: https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/peace-rights-and-security/international-security/peace-support-operations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think peace keepers mostly help train local security forces so locals are helping locals instead of foreign forces telling citizens what to do.

That's what they write down on a piece of paper that they are going to show to the public.

We have seen in afghanistan that they do actual combat operations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

And a ceasefire does not mean the war is over.