Kremlinism/Subversion/“peace”
- Koch, Double Lives
- Negotiated Peace vs Unconditional Surrender, by Tim Starr
Negotiated peace: Versailles. Duration: 20 years. Non-negotiated peace: WWII. Duration: 80 years and counting.
Negotiated peace: Korean War. Result: 70 years of the most heavily-militarized border in the world, brinksmanship, poverty, famine, and nuclear threats by North Korea.
Negotiated peace: Paris Accords, 1973, which were supposed to end the Vietnam War. Result: North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam 2 years later, as well as Cambodia's fall to the Khmer Rouge.
Negotiated peace: Iran-Iraq War, 1988. Result: Saddam invaded Kuwait 2 years later in alliance w/ the Palestinians, threatening Saudi Arabia and firing SCUD missiles at Israel.
Negotiated peace: Gulf War, 1991. Result: Saddam slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Shi'ites and defied the UN resolutions that were supposed to end the war for another 12 years, until he was overthrown by the US-led coalition.
Negotiated peace: Winter War, 1940. Result: Continuation War a few years later, in which the Soviet Union re-took territory from Finland, Finns were expelled, and Finland was forced to be neutral for decades afterwards, with Soviet plans to conscript Finland into fighting on the Soviets' side in a potential Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Negotiated peace: War of 1812. Result: General Pakenham continued the war, attacking New Orleans in hopes of taking the city, nullifying the Louisiana Purchase and blocking western US expansion, only for him to be overwhelmingly defeated by General Jackson's forces in the Battle of New Orleans.
In sum: The only way to get a lasting peace is for the enemy to surrender. Then, and only then, can you negotiate the post-war settlement.
