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The end of superpower patronage to client movements worldwide created a power vacuum whose inevitable results included the spread of violence and the emergence of disparate groups, ostensibly fighting in the name of ideology, religion or ethnicity, but now seeking their finance through local taxes, plunder and pillage.
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― Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why
― Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why
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The great-power veto, which paralyzed the security arrangements of the Council, had not been unrealistic. It was merely a sublimation of the veto power actually held by powerful countries in the field of action, in the same way that ballots are not sacred, but only a sublimation of clubs or bullets, in the domestic arena.
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― This kind of peace
― This kind of peace
