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GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
As long as we have nations and politicians, there will be war. Its been like this for thousands of years. Its not new.
@GuyWithOpinions it's unique to the West.
Punches · 46-50, F
@GuyWithOpinions Pretty sad that as far as we have supposedly evolved, it is still like that.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego uv mentioned that before and i dont understand what you mean? Do you mean war is unique to the west? That wouldnt make sense. Almost all nations were founded by war. Macedonia vs persia, rome vs persia, greece vs persia, mongolia vs half the known world at the time, the crusades in the middle east, any form of colonization, WW1 "the war to end all wars" then it happened again. That doesnt include all the minor conflicts where thousands have people died. The rowandan genoiced, etc...

As long as we stand divided by nations and give all the power to a single group or person, we are forced to kill or die for thier beliefs as we are indoctrinated by a "national identity".
@GuyWithOpinions no, most nations weren't founded by war, that's just projecting. The West does that. The history of the past few centuries of Europe and America are uniquely violent. Their settler colonial exceptionalism is unique and dangerous to everyone.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego i think you need to brush up on world history. You seem to be indoctrinated by your own national propaganda. No judgement. Its normal this era.
@GuyWithOpinions sorry, I think you are clinging to the violent Western mindset. Certainly China isn't interested in containing you to your region, certainly Iran isn't surrounding you. You claim to need hegemony as a population, as a country, over the entire world. That's a unique mindset, born in a unique kind of political violence. It's not the mindset of the global South or the left in politics.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego great britan wouldnt even exist if rome didnt "conquer the pagan barbarians to the north" and "civilized" them. It would still be Britannia and they wouldnt have gone conquering and colonizing. Especially if they didnt buy the first guns from spain who had already annihilated the aztecs, creating mexico.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego i dont think your understanding what im saying because you want to view it in a certain light by a bias you assume of me from what your taught about western nations. Its ok im not judging you. We are all taught to think different things to create division.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego im not saying its necessary. Im saying humans are violent not by nature but because we follow the ideologies of people who shouldnt be in power.
@GuyWithOpinions that's called the "realist view" among mainstream students of the West. But it's one hundred eighty degrees opposed to the mainstream views of the majority of people. It's not considered normal for humans anywhere outside the right wing half of Western humanity. The so called brutal billion believes that they can only have peace through deterrence, by which they mean through controlling everyone with threats and bribes. That's not normal for most people. That's why they are forming BRICS.
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