Very good friends that lived all their lives in a remote one-bedroom cabin in Kashmir.
Even their daddies approved after a while & settled their own border issues for them.
(Jk, I understand culture differences)
very mutually satisfactory way
I don’t remember the details but such things are never “very” anything, just a decision for peace that, if the compromise was sensible & future-proof, after decades becomes just a normal reality & past troubles put to rest so the new gens can live their own lives (instead those of their parents).
You sound like my school English teacher telling me i overuse that word; that was nearly twenty years ago so i’m probably not going to break that habit now. 😂
As far as resolving border disputes goes, i think if it’s been over half a century without the dispute flaring up again, i’d say that qualifies as “very” satisfactory.
just a decision for peace that, if the compromise was sensible & future-proof, after decades becomes just a normal reality
And that’s about the best you can hope for when it comes to any kind of agreement between states.
But for the second point I didn’t mean the result, but the act of when the compromise is done (I didn’t explain myself ‘very’ clearly).
Every pebble “given” to the neighbour will grind someones waking hours until they die, such disputes always leave people ‘very’ angry on both sides bcs humans.
Yet such feelings are (already at the time) irrelevant if people in the (near) future can live with it - and gain so much more with peace.
(Ofc sometimes such deals lead to even more problems down the road & you get even bigger/great/world wars. That mostly means something was made in bad faith, one-sided, and/or with strong underlying feelings to begin with.)
And that’s about the best you can hope for when it comes to any kind of agreement between states.
Very good friends that lived all their lives in a remote one-bedroom cabin in Kashmir.
Even their daddies approved after a while & settled their own border issues for them.
(Jk, I understand culture differences)
I don’t remember the details but such things are never “very” anything, just a decision for peace that, if the compromise was sensible & future-proof, after decades becomes just a normal reality & past troubles put to rest so the new gens can live their own lives (instead those of their parents).
Okay, fair, but…two counterpoints:
You sound like my school English teacher telling me i overuse that word; that was nearly twenty years ago so i’m probably not going to break that habit now. 😂
As far as resolving border disputes goes, i think if it’s been over half a century without the dispute flaring up again, i’d say that qualifies as “very” satisfactory.
And that’s about the best you can hope for when it comes to any kind of agreement between states.
Omg, lol, so sorry about 1. ;D
But for the second point I didn’t mean the result, but the act of when the compromise is done (I didn’t explain myself ‘very’ clearly).
Every pebble “given” to the neighbour will grind someones waking hours until they die, such disputes always leave people ‘very’ angry on both sides bcs humans.
Yet such feelings are (already at the time) irrelevant if people in the (near) future can live with it - and gain so much more with peace.
(Ofc sometimes such deals lead to even more problems down the road & you get even bigger/great/world wars. That mostly means something was made in bad faith, one-sided, and/or with strong underlying feelings to begin with.)
Yes, I think so too.