Репост из: World Affairs Blog
🇺🇸🇷🇺 - If we take for granted that the formal abolishment of the right of conquest was is response to the rise mass ethnic cleansing during conquests, then the logical conclusion is that wars aiming to create puppet states constitute, in fact, a restoration of the right of conquest in its original sense, which means as a right to change the rulers, but not the peoples, of conquered territories.