Lech Walesa (polish politician and labor activist)<span />
2. Peacekeeping today implicates the stationing of troops in order to separate oposing parties as a first stage in the peacefull search of a common solution suitable for both parties.
The Vienna Congress in fact was a convent that was aimed at redesigning the map of Europe, goal was to restore France in it's limits of 1789 and redistribute the territorial gains of the French Empire to those countries they had been taken from.
Certain countries to close to Napoleonic ideas and way of life were simply ignored or overruled and smaler ones simply integrated to larger ones. Belgium for example was used as buffer zone between the Netherlands and France as a protection from any eventual attack coming from France in the Future. Thiscountry was an artificial creation of the Vienna Congress, it was annexed to the Empire of the House of Orange as a southern province before a revolution in 1830 split them from the Netherlands into independancy.
These countries were partly occupied by massive troops formations in order to fight any trial of opposing the new established government. There was no search of a peacefull solution, but an imposed one!
It was a practice that directly affected the U.S. and was even one of the causes of the War of 1812. The British navy consistently suffered manpower shortages due to the low pay and a lack of qualified seamen. During wartime the navy forced unwilling individuals into service.
