Imagine you have to face an enemy and, after assessing the situation you are in, you decided to fight not to obey.
So if your enemy raises his arm, you will have to raise the arm.
If your enemy raises the sword, you have to raise your sword. Then if your enemy charges forward with the sward, then you charge before he has the chance and you strike, and then, his blood gushes out making you a killer and him a victim.
And if your enemy has a brigade, then you have to bring a brigade with yourself.
If your enemy has an army, then you will have to build an army yourself.
If your enemy uses secret services to spy on you, and to spread false and instigating rumors between your own people, then you will have to employ the same secret service to spy on them and spread rumors about their wrong doings between their own people as well.
If your enemy has intelligent weapons, then you will have to make even more intelligent weapons to have a chance to win.
If your enemy tries to debt trap you then you try to build your own financial empire.
Then if your enemy stretches their influence over their borders, you will have to stretch your influence over your own borders as well and shape your own sphere of influence.
If your enemy creates an allies block, then you have to build an allies block as well. And for this you have to show and display your military force and your best weaponry in a war to convince more and more allies to follow you not your enemy.
If your enemy amassed significant wealth that uses to feed their war, then you will have to become rich and use your own wealth to sustain your own wars as well.
If your enemy is a whole weapon industry hungry to sell weapons to the whole world, you will have to at least get along with this enemy until you will find a way, you will have to feed this industry more than your opponent that feeds them as well, you will have to generate fake proxy wars as well, so that nobody realizes that you only want to get as close as possible to the point where you can blow your master hit to shatter this industry and transform it, yet this takes time, but giving up is not an option because you want to win.
We do not know what is behind a war.
We do not know the reasons that make a war happen, and even if we knew what, we can not understand why.
We only see the victims of the war that happens, we do not know the victims of the war that does not happen.
I do not have an clear answer for why war happens for the people that dream of peace, that do not realize that the war mongering forces will not stop at a command but can stop if they are faced with the force of the grand scale they operate with. My words in this page address people who understand that peace has to be achieved and if the main forces that make war happen are at least “managed” because they are too big to be eliminated, than this still is a big step ahead.
We know that war happens and will happen again and again: provoqued, unprovoqued, defensive or offensive, civil or proxy, religious or ideological, for independence or for cohercion…
Russia will always wage wars every now and again to defend its sphere of influence, US waged many wars to “defend the democracy”, China is more and more provoked on Taiwan argument against its One China Policy, India is in a forever conflict with Pakistan and an increasing argument with China, the Middle East is inflated and always bursting since Israel returned to its historical land 75 years ago…
…Make peace with war.
The question is if the leaders that wage war, do or build also something meaningful in the world or when they do not wage wars of attrition they prepare and instigate for war, or they wage financial, trade or ideological wars. Do the states that wage war, wage war because they have to comply to this evil industry if they want to resist and keep their independence? Or they wage war to expand their exploiting agendas?
There is something that makes the big nations that are in the same time big exporters of “democracy” to somehow open wars that contradict their “peace” aspirations. Until we put the finger on what is that <something> we still know that, that something exists and maybe some of those who have to obey this force that impose war, are trying to overthrow it.
Judging leaders is a deep and thorough process, that is why the best Judge is God himself that knows everyone’s heart… we do not know what would we have done if we were in their own shoes.