BazzaMcKenzie wrote:
Anubis wrote:
... if you consider that there has not been one decade without at least one war in some part of the world.....
I think you'll find there has not been 1
year without a war somewhere.
IMHO, there was no point to WW1, WW2, etc. Consider the decline of communism and the USSR. It shows that no bad system is sustainable in the long run. Had Nazi Germany won WW2 it would, like the USSR, have altered (possibly quickly had there been a successful assassination attempt on Hitler). So 50 - 60 years on, Western Europe may not be much different from what it is today. So what was the point?
Or would it be different?
If a country does not have competition from other countries (rising standard of living of neighbours who have more resources to put into missile defence/space race or whatever, there is no imperative to reform in order to keep up. We may not have had the advances in productivity that give us a higher standard of living that people had 100 years ago and we could be living in a police state (Oh I forgot, we are
)
I think that both world wars were justified, and at the cost of many lives, change was brought about for the better. Millions of Jews were killed in concentration camps, don't forget that. Not an international war being fought in the concentration camps, a war against Jews, fellow humans.
Certain countries will compete against each other continuously, and without military competition, the world's technology would be severely behind what it is today.
If Nazi Germany had won, then the Jews would be very rare indeed. Pointless suffering of many innocents.
"The only thing neccessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
I'm afraid that's how the world works, and there are still loads of conflicting factions in the world. The politicians in the last world wars couldn't come to an agreement, as their interests clashed with each other, and so on and so forth. In WWI the wars carried on until the European superpowers could fight no more, Germany surrendered eventually; whereas in WWII the fighting was spread out over a wide area, and Germany still lost in the end.
War is very neccessary, and you cannot change the past, either.
I don't hate war, but I do hate people who hold the human race back, or let it down, by being degenerate or stupid.
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