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It is widely known that there are never any winners in a war. In a
conflict, everyone loses people, possessions, homes, and a lot more. War
can also affect people on many levels ranging from the physical to the
psychological and even the spiritual. However, supporting the victims in
an aggression always seems to increase this aggression instead of the
intended effect of stopping it.
In order to
find solutions or prevent a war, we must first understand what a war
really is and who starts a war. A people which is strong and secure
doesn’t need to cause a war. Take the Nazis for example. These people
weren’t greedy as people claim, they were insecure. They didn’t know
their place in the world and wanted to secure a place for themselves. If
they weren’t limited in the beginning to start with, they wouldn’t have
expanded their domination projects that much.
Possessing
weapons isn’t a sign of strength, but of weakness. Physical strength can
never account for the absence of safety. Opposing a war and supporting
the victims only will not stop a war, it will keep increasing it. The
aggressor will find that everyone is opposing him and will not step back
in fear of losing what he already has. To stop a war, we must understand
the aggressor.
Conflict is
caused by a basic animal instinct or emotion: fear. We’ve heard the
saying many times that the animals that attack you are more afraid of
you than you are afraid of them. It’s the same with people: the people
who attack you are the people who fear you more than you fear them. What
makes these people afraid is insecurity. When there is no sense of
belonging, any person will feel lost. This feeling of loss will
eventually cause fear and weaken the person. It’s the same thing for
nation. A nation which is internally unsafe is a weak nation which will
always cause conflict to preserve its existence.
The solution
for this problem is easy: make people feel safe and give them a sense of
belonging. Make them feel that no one’s after their land. Only if both
people, the aggressor and the victim, feel secure, will they seek to
find solutions which will lead to mutual benefit and even cooperation.
Now that we
know who the weak person in a war really is, we can start to find some
real solutions without getting involved in condemning or opposing a
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