What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.