International politics is not the place for soul. Nuclear weapons are its most powerful aspect, not morals or money or religion or anything else. It has every culture, every set of values that exists, present somewhere. The lives of millions can, and sometimes have been, snuffed in a year, and even memory of them attempted to be scrubbed. If you want to lean on soul, you better be ready to surrender your body.
Wow that’s a dark take. You’re probably not wrong, but I sure hope there’s a little more to it than that.
We can fight to change it. It doesn’t have to be that way, it just historically has been. The historical work of the United Nations shows there’s other viable methods though. Then the decades of attacks on the UN’s purpose and reputation show that not everybody wants to see these things change. Hence the need to see it as a fight where we are potentially outnumbered and outgunned, sometimes both at home and overseas, by people that prefer a simpler world ruled by the fundamental threat of violence.
