There's a difference between needs and rights.For example I need...

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    There's a difference between needs and rights.

    For example I need to put a 30 foot high wind generator in my back yard
    to be energy self-sufficient (and Green) but in doing so that it interferes with the reception of my next door
    neighbour's Free to Air TV reception , then obviously that would be unacceptable
    (one's property rights being a microcosm of national property rights)

    The bottom line with respect to this war is the Ukraine's assertion of its
    National Security rights impact the National Security concerns /rights of
    a neighbour and the neighbour's response to that.

    If you still think that a country has an absolute right to do what it wants
    then we would be in real strife if PNG decided to allow Chinese WMDs
    siloed in southern PNG and aimed at our population centres claiming
    that Aus is a National Security threat to PNG.

    IMO that would be unacceptable and Aus would likely force PNG to refrain
    and I would be in favour of that even though I'm anti-war. I would favour
    negotiations so that an acceptable compromise could be reached

    Just as the USA forced Cuba/USSR to remove Russian WMDs from Cuba
    even thought the US had threatened Cuban Sovereignty a few years early
    in the form of The Bay of Pigs debacle.

    So in summary, IMO, a country does not have a right to implement
    National Security measures if those measures threaten/ severely threaten
    the National Security of a neighbour particuluarly if that neighbour
    is a global Nuke Power .

    IMO this war is fundamentally about that and the sooner that
    the world agrees on that, the sooner that this war can be peacefully resolved.







 
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