Summer Post #4

Reading the news I have discovered that the majority of the news articles are consumed by ongoing war and conflicts between nations. Noticing that, it stirred the thought within me: Is the concept of war always for the better or the worse? This delves into the human brain and our behavior. History as an area of knowledge studies our actions, evolution and environmental impacts through time. When a person examines the history of humanity in terms of every country and how it came to be to this day, there is almost no country that did not fight at least a few wars in order to achieve where it is at the moment. Germany went through world war two and ended up right where it started thanks to the dictator, Hitler. Russia, however, evolved as a nation and although Stalin’s dictatorship had many questionable decisions being pulled through, one cannot avoid the fact that he managed to propel his country forward in terms of the economy, which is still influenced by his actions. Other countries fight wars as an act of self-defense, so not all forms of war are pure evil. Some wars are based on either history with each other or historical facts that are claimed to be true/untrue. An example of this would be Palestine. Israelis claim that according to Jewish scriptures and historical facts, Palestine was their rightful land and wishes its current inhabitants to exit. Palestinians, however, disagree with that statement and refuse to leave which results in a never-ending war of trying to eliminate and purge them from their own soil. This can be deemed as a war that has no profound intentions as a great number of countries have lived in Palestine, resulting in its popular name of “no mans land” and the diverse appearance of its people. This makes Israel’s statement completely irrelevant.