Woke up Saturday morning and there seems to be ANOTHER WAR. All the talking heads shifted focus from Ukraine to Israel.
Since I’ve been living on this blue bubble, my country has been at WAR. After the BIG WAR where we came out as the victor because we were out of range and away from the battlefield, we thought we could beat any other army. We may have forgotten all the other allies who helped?
We also forgot WE were the first country to drop the BIG ONE (thought the technology has spread).
We were not very good at any of the other wars since then. The War Against Communism? The War on Poverty? The War Against Drugs? War on Terrorists?
Korea was a draw. Vietnam was a bust. Invasion of Afghanistan (got Osama Ben Laden in Pakistan) and Iraq (no weapons of mass destruction)? Not to mention all those hit and miss actions like Cuba, Somalia, etc. where we tried to be the World Police.
War: 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, 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.
Here is a website that can give up-to-date details on the ‘current’ wars of the world.
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/countries-currently-at-war/
If there are no winners to wars (except munition manufacturers and funeral directors). Do we parent children only to send them out in the field of battle to murder each other?
Our ‘action’ movies show the excitement of the propaganda of killing the enemy and coming home to the praise of our country (with maybe a few less limbs and mental disorder).
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