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A strong vulnerability to war between Ukraine and Russia

humanity, brotherhood, goodness, justice, and love

By Barnabas PayamPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties.

While some war studies scholars consider war a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature, others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural, economic or ecological circumstances.

We can give many reasons for wars but no one thinks about the weaknesses behind them. One nation against another nation, one race against another race, one religion against another religion, and one person against another are just causes of war. But not thinking about weaknesses is the first weakness of humans.

Country upon country

A strong country will seek many opportunities to attack a weak country. A weak country starts looking for ways to loot its wealth. Willing to meet opportunities as they arise. For a strong country to do this we can predict the behaviors of the people of that country and also understand their nature. It can be said that not understanding and not noticing how weak humanity, brotherhood, goodness, justice and love are among the people of that country are the weaknesses of a strong country.

Similarly, a weak country will sometimes go to war against a strong country if it gets help from a strong country to prepare for war. It can be said that even a small country will suffer from these weaknesses if given opportunities. That is the war between Ukraine and Russia that we are seeing, there is no difference whether it is a small country or a big country. It can be said that humanity, brotherhood, goodness, justice, and love have diminished in the leaders of that country or in the people. It can be said that human beings forget themselves and behave without knowing themselves.

Race upon race

All humans are one species. But it is also a weakness in man to form races based on knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, wealth, strength, color and work. It may be said that the formation of races among men, as there are races among animals in the wild, is due to the weakness of man in not recognizing man as man.

There is strong evidence that these wars are fought because of strong weakness. Wars will not stop in this world until this is recognized. How can modern civilization not recognize the weakness of man yet. Since the beginning of time, human beings have been one and the differences caused by knowledge are still present in this modern era.

During the time of kings, one kingdom against another kingdom, today war between Ukraine and Russia, tomorrow another country is fighting wars like this. It should be said that man learns from the wild beasts in the wilderness by seeing one religion over another, religious riots, differences between man and man. No matter how much knowledge a man acquires, having an animal nature is nothing more than a strong reason.

Because of this weakness, men are destroying themselves. This is the strongest weakness of humans.

To say that we are human beings, we should say that we live by watching the happenings in nature with animals. It seems that there is nothing wrong in admitting that man cannot do his own self-righteousness.

Because he knows that he is ruining man's existence on this earth by seeking abode in another planet.

The earliest evidence of prehistoric warfare is a Mesolithic cemetery in Jebel Sahaba, which has been determined to be approximately 14,000 years old. About forty-five percent of the skeletons there displayed signs of violent death. Since the rise of the state some 5,000 years ago, military activity has occurred over much of the globe. The advent of gunpowder and the acceleration of technological advances led to modern warfare. According to Conway W. Henderson, "One source claims that 14,500 wars have taken place between 3500 BC and the late 20th century, costing 3.5 billion lives, leaving only 300 years of peace (Beer 1981: 20). An unfavorable review of this estimate mentions the following regarding one of the proponents of this estimate: "In addition, perhaps feeling that the war casualties figure was improbably high, he changed 'approximately 3,640,000,000 human beings have been killed by war or the diseases produced by war' to 'approximately 1,240,000,000 human beings...&c.'" The lower figure is more plausible, but could still be on the high side considering that the 100 deadliest acts of mass violence between 480 BC and 2002 AD (wars and other man-made disasters with at least 300,000 and up to 66 million victims) claimed about 455 million human lives in total. Primitive warfare is estimated to have accounted for 15.1% of deaths and claimed 400 million victims. Added to the aforementioned figure of 1,240 million between 3500 BC and the late 20th century, this would mean a total of 1,640,000,000 people killed by war (including deaths from famine and disease caused by war) throughout the history and pre-history of mankind. For comparison, an estimated 1,680,000,000 people died from infectious diseases in the 20th century.

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Barnabas Payam

I write my writings humorously, poetically and artistically about the changes in the spiritual condition of human beings to live peacefully and cheerfully.

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