Logic behind War

If you know where and how to look, everything can eventually start making sense to you—even war.

It does not justify war or lessen the suffering it causes. It does not forgive the pain, and unfortunately, it does not change anything either. But you can gain an understanding of why war exists if it genuinely interests you.

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Every single war (or any other destruction-based strategy) in the world today has nothing to do with actual countries fighting each other, their people, or their cultures. It's not about their history, nor is it about the mental state of their presidents.

All wars are merely proxies for world-scale dysfunctional geopolitics and a completely broken global economic system playing a very foolish game together.

We pay with human lives and our natural resources to fund and propagate wars everywhere. Or, if we consider ourselves the 'good' ones, we just send military equipment or humanitarian aid to those who kill each other for some reason.

Why?

Why would anyone support the destruction of our planet, nature, or humanity?

No one knows the definitive answer to this question, but somehow most of us end up supporting and contributing our personal energies, time, resources, and intellectual capacities to promote more wars in this world.

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It actually does not matter where you live or where you come from. If there is still a war in this world (and you care about it), whether you like it or not, it is probably somehow related to you, your job, your country, or something else in your personal reality.

If you spend your energy talking about the presidents of countries you don't even know and how you feel about them, it honestly does not change anything. In fact, the more you talk about them, the more you give your precious energy to them directly.

You don't stop the war by judging or hating them. You actually contribute more to the war every time you criticize something you know nothing about.

When you listen to the news about a war somewhere, you literally give the energy of your attention and concentration to the people who wage the war. You encourage it without even realizing it. You feed the war with your own personal energy and power and you spend your time judging politics at a level you could never fully comprehend.

You have the arrogance and ignorance to criticize world leaders as if you were knowledgeable enough to understand anything about their reality or the problems they deal with daily.

You watch the news on TV from the guy who lives next to you and believe it entitles you to have an opinion about people you don't know or their leadership strategies in countries you have never visited.

How can you possibly believe in your own self-significance that much? Or, are you just extremely naive about your own self-ignorance?

How can you judge something you have never experienced for yourself? How can you know how it feels? How can you trust what others tell you?

How can you have faith in your own beliefs if most of what you have in your head was created by people who wanted to abuse and manipulate you?

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War is an open and usually armed conflict between two or more nations or sub-cultures.

Why do we start conflicts with each other in our personal relationships? There are mainly three reasons:

1. We feel unsafe.

2. We feel unloved.

3. We feel overpowered.

If we have no idea how to meet our needs appropriately to feel safe, loved, and empowered at any given moment, we will have reasons to justify an open conflict. If we are really blind, deaf, and closed-hearted to the reality of the other, violence and intensity will most likely take place in our relationships.

It's the exact same thing with countries.

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How can an entire country start feeling unsafe, unloved, and disempowered to the point where mothers produce homemade bombs with their kids in the kitchen during dinner times and think it's normal?

How can a father of a family with infants voluntarily go to war just to kill his own brothers?

How can we glorify and be so proud of a population that has decided to use bombs and kill each other? In the name of what? Freedom? Independence? Sovereignty?

Really?

Honestly, think about it for a moment. Do you really think you are being reasonable to believe that killing someone is a fair strategy to proclaim your personal freedom?

This is nonsense. And you are being a very naive puppet of the system promoting war if you think you can obtain authentic freedom through violence or disrespect for life or humans.

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Now. If you live in a country like Canada and you think that sending military equipment or any other national resources to countries fighting for their freedom is okay, you are actually a big part of the problem. You are a war collaborator and you don't even realize it.

Canada has a financial interest in supporting wars in other countries around the world, not because it cares about freedom, but because it makes tons of money out of it.

The more companies and factories produce and sell airplanes, bombs, and other war-related stuff, the richer and more powerful Canadians and their government will become.

War is economically smart, especially when it’s happening on the other side of the world and you are perceived as a 'savior' of some sort.

You don't only enrich the technology, 'humanitarian,' and transportation sectors, you also significantly increase the activity and revenues of petroleum, mining, and other very powerful industries.

You think you want to encourage and help those who suffer from unjust attacks somewhere and protect their illusory sense of freedom, but in reality, you are just encouraging the prosperity of the economy of your own country and enriching your own people.

You use national conflicts elsewhere in the world to sell the stuff you produce without understanding why and how to make more money out of it. And you think you are a hero.

You fund and encourage companies and organizations with your own money and energy to mainly increase your country's overall economic growth and secure your boring job for a bit longer.

You make money because people wage wars. This is why you actually care. You don't really give a shit about people you don't know and never will. You care about money and the people you personally know. But realizing that to make the people you love happy, you must encourage wars is a bit tricky to accept for your conscience, isn't it? So, using the excuse of freedom and protection makes sense to you.

It does not matter if you think you are the persecutor, the victim, or the savior. If any part of you believes that there is a 'good' enough reason to take someone else's life or destroy nature, you are part of the problem and you probably contribute to the war in this world in one way or another.

Whether you like it or not, whether you are ready to honestly acknowledge it or not, we are all deeply interconnected and interdependent. We are all already free and truly astonishingly powerful.

We can use all of that to harm ourselves and others even more, or we can use it to regenerate the Earth, create peace, and live a truly satisfying and fulfilling life together.