issuevoter wrote on Apr 7
th, 2020 at 12:22pm:
If a country is legally obliged to accept refugee citizens of a second country. The first country has the moral, if not legal, right to intervene in the second country, overthrow the government, correct its laws, and send the "refugees" back home.
Unfortunately not so - the principle of national sovereignty rules, and short of a declaration of war, all that can be done about nastiness in another country is protest, set in place sanctions, and take in refugees afflicted by the evil in that land.
If a clear case can be made that a majority of the people in such a nation are fighting for 'freedom' (a malleable concept at best), there is the possibility of intervention.... but I've told yez about intervention and the flow-on effects from it many times.
When I was a young man and first read Barnet's Intervention and Revolution, a lot of it went over my head - as I've grown into my nose, it all becomes crystal clear. Now it is one of my favourite reference books.