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Beau talks about the urgent need to establish durable peace amidst escalating conflicts and political shifts, stressing the failure of military solutions and the importance of swift action.
Peace advocates, policymakers
The full transcript provides a deeper understanding of the urgency in establishing lasting peace and the potential consequences of failing to do so.
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Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today, we are going to talk about two completely
unrelated events, two things that have absolutely nothing
to do with each other.
I've just decided to stick them in a video together.
We're going to talk about those two things.
We are going to talk about banners being hung up and what
happens when they're hung up and a little bit of time passes.
We are going to talk about something that, of course, is completely surprising and nobody
could have seen it coming, and we're going to talk about what the options are from here.
Okay, so if you missed the news, have no idea what's going on.
In those areas where the Israeli military declared mission accomplished, hung up that
banner and said that Hamas was defeated in those areas. Hamas is reasserting
control, reasserting governance. Their security services are out and about. They
are distributing payments. Mission accomplished banner. Speed running. Every
mistake the US made. Every advisor on this type of conflict said this was going
to happen. The strategy deployed cannot achieve the victory conditions set.
there is no military solution to this. What this means is that everything you
have seen will occur again without a durable piece being set up in the window
to get that durable piece happening. It is shrinking. It is closing. That time
frame is closing. If it closes it'll all happen again. Whatever part of this that
you find upsetting, that part will happen as well. This doesn't work.
Foreign policy based on bad 1980s action movies does not work. Right now, the
actions that have been taken have set the stage for everything to occur again,
for another cycle to occur and for absolutely nothing to change. The only
pathway forward is establishing a durable peace and doing it quickly. But
those who are supposed to be pursuing that durable peace, well they're bickering
over ceasefire details. I would remind everybody they are bickering from a
place nowhere near the fighting.
The period in which another cycle can be avoided is shrinking very, very quickly.
time frame is the windows closing. And it's not a matter of one side winning.
There is no winning. When you were talking about peace in a
cyclical conflict, it's never happy, it's always heartbreaking, and then it moves
forward, and then peace can take root. In completely unrelated news, Michelle
O'Neill, an Irish Republican, Vice President of Sinn Fein, is now First
Minister of Northern Ireland. First time since, well, first time there's been an
Irish Republican, an Irish nationalist in that spot. This occurred because of
the Good Friday Agreement. The paths forward could not be more clear. An
unrelated event or the same thing that you have seen for the last half century.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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