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robertsnj · 56-60, M
It is a bigger question than my brain can handle but if I had time to dig I would probably lean on the Brookings Institution and the Aspen Institute as think tank resources the most.
Sometimes from an economic idea feels non achieveable. If you work the equation backwards wars are often large scale competition for scare resources.
The world insterest in Afganistan has opium as an alluring factor
Russia's interest in Uraine has natural gas, ores and other tied to
The interest in Taiwan is around chipsets.
The Middle East has oil
I am not sure we can remove the root cause of competition for resources of value.
We could possibly diminish it by promoting more free trade, double down on supply chain processes and encourage when we can countries, promoting mutual cooperation for mutual benefit.
I am American and can see how much of a foothold China has in the continent of Africa by building and investing their infastructure while my dumb politicians invest in more guns as a way to access resources.
I am confident China will win the war for Africian resources over the USA and Europe because their strategy makes more sense--espcially to countries like Nigera and Angola.
From a religous weather it was the genocide in Rawanda (Christians vs Muslims) the Kosovo war (again Christians vs Muslims) or any Middle Eastern war (Jews and Christians vs Muslism)
Religion in addition to being useless in a modern world gives it followers endless permission to kill members of other religions. Less religon equals less war equals more world peace.
Sometimes from an economic idea feels non achieveable. If you work the equation backwards wars are often large scale competition for scare resources.
The world insterest in Afganistan has opium as an alluring factor
Russia's interest in Uraine has natural gas, ores and other tied to
The interest in Taiwan is around chipsets.
The Middle East has oil
I am not sure we can remove the root cause of competition for resources of value.
We could possibly diminish it by promoting more free trade, double down on supply chain processes and encourage when we can countries, promoting mutual cooperation for mutual benefit.
I am American and can see how much of a foothold China has in the continent of Africa by building and investing their infastructure while my dumb politicians invest in more guns as a way to access resources.
I am confident China will win the war for Africian resources over the USA and Europe because their strategy makes more sense--espcially to countries like Nigera and Angola.
From a religous weather it was the genocide in Rawanda (Christians vs Muslims) the Kosovo war (again Christians vs Muslims) or any Middle Eastern war (Jews and Christians vs Muslism)
Religion in addition to being useless in a modern world gives it followers endless permission to kill members of other religions. Less religon equals less war equals more world peace.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@robertsnj [quote] It is a bigger question than my brain can handle but if I had time to dig I would probably lean on the Brookings Institution and the Aspen Institute as think tank resources the most.
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Those two are American think tanks since forever, and currently funded by donors whose values have been shaping US foreign policy through all the wars we fought to protect human rights and freedom. Finding peace thru war is crooked thinking.
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Those two are American think tanks since forever, and currently funded by donors whose values have been shaping US foreign policy through all the wars we fought to protect human rights and freedom. Finding peace thru war is crooked thinking.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@robertsnj [quote] Sometimes from an economic idea feels non achieveable. If you work the equation backwards wars are often large scale competition for scare resources.
The world insterest in Afganistan has opium as an alluring factor
Russia's interest in Uraine has natural gas, ores and other tied to
The interest in Taiwan is around chipsets.
The Middle East has oil
I am not sure we can remove the root cause of competition for resources of value. [/quote]
If we work the equation backwards, all those conflicts were created by the US, the world's largest economy with a high per capita GDP. America is a land of abundant resources including human. We have fertile farmlands, massive amount of oil and coal, and innovative people whose technological inventions had modernized the world. We did not fight a 20 year war in Afghanistan for opium, nor were we after oil in our war and occupation in Iraq. Meddling with China over Taiwan inspite of our recognition that it is Chinese territory as stated in our "One China Policy", is wrong even if we needed chipsets. We can easily make our own, and better.
I have not covered our meddling in Ukraine. It's complicated. Russia has as much oil as the US or Saudi Arabia.
It is not about resources regardless of what American think tanks say.
The world insterest in Afganistan has opium as an alluring factor
Russia's interest in Uraine has natural gas, ores and other tied to
The interest in Taiwan is around chipsets.
The Middle East has oil
I am not sure we can remove the root cause of competition for resources of value. [/quote]
If we work the equation backwards, all those conflicts were created by the US, the world's largest economy with a high per capita GDP. America is a land of abundant resources including human. We have fertile farmlands, massive amount of oil and coal, and innovative people whose technological inventions had modernized the world. We did not fight a 20 year war in Afghanistan for opium, nor were we after oil in our war and occupation in Iraq. Meddling with China over Taiwan inspite of our recognition that it is Chinese territory as stated in our "One China Policy", is wrong even if we needed chipsets. We can easily make our own, and better.
I have not covered our meddling in Ukraine. It's complicated. Russia has as much oil as the US or Saudi Arabia.
It is not about resources regardless of what American think tanks say.
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sree251 · 41-45, M
@ExperienceDLT I don't think China hates the America. We are China's biggest market. They have been supplying us manufactured goods for all our big box stores since they opened up in 1972 when Nixon went to China. We have helped them lift 800 million Chinese out of poverty. There are indebted to us. The Chinese are a grateful people. It's our goddam think tanks that view China as an enemy competing with us for world power. US intelligence has been trying to destabilize China in Xinjiang, Hong Kong,and Taiwan. We forced China to divert her resources to building up her military for war with the US.
We are doing the same thing to Russia: creating conflict over Ukraine. We are doing the same thing in the Middle East agitating the Arabs. What's wrong with us?
We are doing the same thing to Russia: creating conflict over Ukraine. We are doing the same thing in the Middle East agitating the Arabs. What's wrong with us?
ExperienceDLT · M
@sree251 war=control
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@ExperienceDLT that's the way. No peace. Just say no.
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ABCDEF7 · M
World peace depends on inner peace of individual. For which spirituality(not religious spirituality) seems to be option.
ABCDEF7 · M
@sree251 Thanks for that honour. I am a learner myself. I can just share experiences/learnings from my journey, that may or may not help you.
What I have understood is that, there are different ways/path to reach the same destination. Different people find different ways more helpful/suitable to them. Some fine one or other or combination of more than one more appropriate to them.
There are majorly 4 ways I am trying to follow.
First one is mental one, full of logic & reasoning. The approach is to [b]understand[/b] who you are. It is called the path of knowledge. The problem here is ignorance and solution is [b]knowledge[/b]. It sounds a good path but actually requires different level of mental vision/inference, and few people may not find it helpful to them.
Second one is also mental, but it doesn't have logical approach. This approach considers that everyone knows their own reality, the only problem is they are not able to realise who they are just because they are always distracted to something. The problem here is distraction and solution is [b]meditation[/b].
Third one is most practical. For me personally, it is the difficult one and needs to be followed after the exploration of first and/or fourth one. It is the path of action, the [b]righteous & selfless action[/b]. We do all actions for ourselves and our loved ones, this makes a false identity of what is me/I. Only after you are able to detach yourself from this false identity of yourself, you will be able to truly identify true yourself. For you need to do only the righteous & selfless actions.
Fourth one is different from all above as it takes help of the believe system as it is in religious faiths. Actually it is the path of [b]devotion & love[/b] towards god & humanity. The problem here is desires/lust and selfishness, and the solution is devotion to God, leaving all desires and dedicating your life to the will of God.
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What I have understood is that, there are different ways/path to reach the same destination. Different people find different ways more helpful/suitable to them. Some fine one or other or combination of more than one more appropriate to them.
There are majorly 4 ways I am trying to follow.
First one is mental one, full of logic & reasoning. The approach is to [b]understand[/b] who you are. It is called the path of knowledge. The problem here is ignorance and solution is [b]knowledge[/b]. It sounds a good path but actually requires different level of mental vision/inference, and few people may not find it helpful to them.
Second one is also mental, but it doesn't have logical approach. This approach considers that everyone knows their own reality, the only problem is they are not able to realise who they are just because they are always distracted to something. The problem here is distraction and solution is [b]meditation[/b].
Third one is most practical. For me personally, it is the difficult one and needs to be followed after the exploration of first and/or fourth one. It is the path of action, the [b]righteous & selfless action[/b]. We do all actions for ourselves and our loved ones, this makes a false identity of what is me/I. Only after you are able to detach yourself from this false identity of yourself, you will be able to truly identify true yourself. For you need to do only the righteous & selfless actions.
Fourth one is different from all above as it takes help of the believe system as it is in religious faiths. Actually it is the path of [b]devotion & love[/b] towards god & humanity. The problem here is desires/lust and selfishness, and the solution is devotion to God, leaving all desires and dedicating your life to the will of God.
Edit: Fixed some typos.
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
By making human rights the law,
By making war illegal and impractical.
By making war illegal and impractical.
NerdyPotato · M
By developing empathy again.
Elanor · F
By finding beauty in the simple things in life … less is more.
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