Wars are fought for any number reasons: political, economics, racial, etc.
A quick thumbing through the Dictionary of Wars by George C Kohn which
covers wars from 2000 BC to the present will quickly attest to this fact.
Wars can be between atheist regimes like the one between China and Vietnam
in 1979 during the 3rd Indo-Chinese wars. Or, as insane as the 1969 Football war that killed 2000 men over the out come of a soccer game between Honduras and Salvador. The Trojan war was fought over a woman.
It is karma. Karma is not only on the individual personal level, but also on the societal and national level. This becomes even more so in democracies where people vote in the government so the individual voter bears more responsibility and gets more karmic reaction perhaps than before democracy.
Society encourages many activities that have serious negative karmic reactions which when multiplied by the millions become massive. I will mention only one as some others may be too difficult and politically unpopular for some to even hear.
The major cause of war is the mass slaughter of animals that take place on a daily basis. In the USA alone about 40 million cattle are murdered every year. And that doesnât include other creatures like pigs, chickens, sheep, and fish. And that is only one country.
Living Graves By George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
Weâre sick of War, we do not want to fight â
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet â we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows, we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and pain
We cause by doing so, if thus we treat
Defenseless animals for sport or gain,
How can we hope in this world to attain
The PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it, oâer hecatombs of slain,
To God, while outraging the moral law.
Thus cruelty begets its offspring â WAR
And consider this:
When a man becomes too proud of his material position, he tries to enjoy his senses in an unrestricted way, being influenced by the modes of passion and ignorance. He is thus described as asuric, or demoniac. When people are demoniac in spirit, they are not merciful toward the poor animals. Consequently, they maintain various animal slaughterhouses. This is technically called sĆ«nÄ, or hiáčsÄ, which means the killing of living beings. In Kali-yuga, due to the increase of the modes of passion and ignorance, almost all men are asuric, or demoniac; therefore they are very much fond of eating flesh, and for this end they maintain various kinds of animal slaughterhouses.
In this Age of Kali the propensity for mercy is almost nil. Consequently there is always fighting and wars between men and nations. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars. This is very much evident in the Western countries. In the West, slaughterhouses are maintained without restriction, and therefore every fifth or tenth year there is a big war in which countless people are slaughtered even more cruelly than the animals. Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal-killing in the slaughterhouse and by hunters in the forest. Proud, demoniac persons do not know the laws of nature, or the laws of God. Consequently, they unrestrictedly kill poor animals, not caring for them at all. In the KáčáčŁáča consciousness movement, animal-killing is completely prohibited. One is not accepted as a bona fide student in this movement unless he promises to follow the four regulative principles: no animal-killing, no intoxication, no illicit sex and no gambling. This KáčáčŁáča consciousness movement is the only means by which the sinful activities of men in this Kali-yuga can be counteracted. Srimad Bhagavatam 4.26.5 commentary
The slave trade has been around for millennia and is not a manifestation of capitalism. It has always existed and is a blight on society. In modern communist (China) regimes they have slavery, they just call them by different names. âStudentsâ in re-education camps.
Julius Caesar, while a youth, was captured by Illyrian Pirates and if he could not be ransomed was to be sold as a slave. On attaining his freedom he headed a military expedition that captured and executed the offending pirates.
Hmmm. I was recently reading about the Haitian revolution (Slave revolt) that took place about 60 years before the Civil war. Hundreds of thousands were killed. When the slaves finally were victorious they exterminated all the whites (men, women and children) on the island. They even exterminated whites who had been favorable to the revolt and who had helped them. It was a mass genocide. Thousands of refugees left Haiti and settled in Louisiana and along the Eastern coast of the USA. They spread this news of what happened in the aftermath of the slave revolt where all whites were exterminated regardless of whether they were friend or foe. As a result the South was terrified of what might happen. And even non-slave owning southerners were terrified because not being a slave owner did not spare you in Haiti. So that was a big motivating factor for even the regular non-plantation owning Southerner to fight. They were terrified that Haiti might repeat itself in the Southern USA.
The only exception to the genocide in Haiti was that of the armed soldiers of the Polish legion who had deserted the French and fought on the slave side. Sill today in Haiti there are descendants of the Polish Legion. Who would have thunk it Polish-Haitians.
Good to get back to the OP. It is very creepy what they are doing.
Just consider these two events,
When the Wuhan virus first broke out, the Chinese went into beast mode and hermetically sealed their country and would not allow any internal travel, zero, nada, zilch. Even though it was the holiday season (Chinese New year) Why? Because they thought is was great threat to their people.
But, the CCP allowed hundreds of thousands of local Chinese people to fly out of China and travel all over the world. A big destination was Northern Italy where about 300,000 Chinese live. We all know what happened in Italy and from there there the rest of Europe.
So the question is: what kind of government would internally seal off its own country to stop any local contagion from spreading. But, allow hundreds of thousands of super spreaders to travel internationally?
Should we trust them with the well being of the rest of the world?
