#Foreign and #Domestic Emergencies Dept : The current situation is just horrific. Humanity at its worst. Each entity involved, due to the recent actions of the others, has legitimate claims for self defense. Ironically , the conflict, as a whole, remains illegitimate , as there are no independent justifications for the violence, only an unending chain of incidents stretching back in history as fas as one might like, the one before justifying the next in line, ad infinitum