When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.
Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.
The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.