KISSINGER: "In the end, collective security fell prey to the weakness of its central premise - that all nations have the same interest in resisting a particular act of agression and are prepared to run identical risks in opposing it. Experience has shown these assumptions to be false. No act of agression involving a major power has ever been defeated by applying the principle of collective security. Either the world community has refused to assess the act as one which constituted aggression, or it has disagreed over the appropriate sanctions. And when sanctions were applied, they inevitably reflected the lowest denominator, often proving so ineffectual that they did more harm than good.
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