Word: peacekeepingã
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...their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across, two Russian “peacekeeping?? battalions deployed in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions on the Georgian side of the border served as a 723-kilometer reminder of the Kremlin’s presence...
...problem is two-fold: for all of the atrocity in the world, the international community sends in peacekeepers only a fraction of the time, and the peacekeeping missions that do happen are undertaken by regular soldiers—who are trained at killing and not peacekeeping??and so these missions are typically mired by inefficiency. A permanent peacekeeping force would address the first problem and it would solve the second...
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