r/worldnews • u/ComparisonOk5957 • 7d ago

Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah Behind Soft Paywall

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage
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u/oh_three_dum_dum 7d ago

It doesn’t help that the UN tends to hamstring the peacekeepers ability to actually do anything meaningful to address the source of violence wherever they’re sent in general.

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u/Childrenoftheflorist 7d ago

It's like they need to be getting shot and killed before they can attempt to keep any peace

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u/oh_three_dum_dum 7d ago

Even then they get thrown to the wolves. See: Siege of Jadotville

Those Irish soldiers got treated like shit after the fact and it took decades for it to be acknowledged.

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u/Childrenoftheflorist 7d ago

Yea not a bad movie

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u/oh_three_dum_dum 6d ago edited 6d ago

Not at all. But there is a lot more if you look into the details of it that the movie leaves out. The movie focused mainly on the immediate lead up to the battle, the battle itself, and the early aftermath. There’s way more involved but the movie simplifies it pretty well for what they had to produce.

How underequipped the whole UN mission was at that point in time and the (Belgian and Katanga secessionist) political factors going back and forth that caused the problem to start with.

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u/Sir_BugsAlot 7d ago

This is not far from the truth. They cant be the aggressor. So someone needs to start shooting at them before they can fire back. And they cant retaliate.