![]() In the Western Pacific in the coming decades, morality may mean giving up some of our most cherished ideals for the sake of stability. Humanitarian intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s was possible only because the Serbian regime was not a great power armed with nuclear weapons, unlike the Russian regime, which at the same time was committing atrocities of a similar scale in Chechnya where the West did nothing nor did the West do much against the ethnic cleansing in the Caucasus because there, too, was a Russian sphere of influence. Truly, in international affairs, behind all questions of morality lie questions of power. ![]() ![]() “it is not only our values that matter, but the military might that backs them up. ![]()
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