How long will humanity remain humiliated?

 Friday, January 3, 2025

Islamabad (Point News Today/ Pakistan Point News - 11th Jan, 2025 ) Here we will not talk about climate change at all, but our point is towards the ongoing war and conflict every moment. Sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, sometimes in the north, sometimes in the south! Somewhere or the other, the burning volcano of war continues to receive the outflow of human lives.

Although climate change is also the work of this 'modern man', what will you do about these wars whose history is as old as man himself! These are the ultimate result of the different emotions and differences of man and have been going on since the time when man did not even know firearms, but perhaps since man came into this world, he has learned to fight and die along with living.

If we look at the killing of 'Abel' by 'Cain', then we can consider it the first 'war' in human history. Then time moved on, man started living in regular groups and then 'group interests' and issues of leadership and rule emerged in them, sometimes there were disputes over leadership, sometimes there was bloodshed between two groups for power, then there was the existence of the state and then there were conflicts and killings between these states, as a result of which thousands of people were killed.

Some raised the slogan of right and wrong, some shed blood on the basis of superiority and superiority, while some raised the scale of good and evil.

On the other hand, the issue of arrows, swords and spears reached modern automatic weapons and the lethality increased many times. If war continued in the world continuously, many efforts were also made for peace. In the twentieth century, at the end of the Second World War, an organization called the United Nations came into being in 1945, one of whose major and key objectives was to save the world from wars.

It was successful compared to previous such efforts in that it became an obstacle to the third world war, but in the 1950s itself, whether it was the Vietnam War or Korea, then the long front between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union or the long conflict between Iran and Iraq, and then from Chechnya, Kosovo, Yugoslavia to the Lebanese civil war and the bloodshed in Syria as a result of the 'Arab Spring' and the long series of killings by armed groups in Yemen.

After that, coming to recent times, the war in Eastern Europe will be three years old in February 2025, and 350,000 lives have been lost in this war so far. Similarly, the ongoing armed conflicts in the Middle East have swallowed thousands of lives so far. As if we can say that despite being modern, enlightened and thoughtful, the world has not been able to get rid of war and bloodshed even today.

Interestingly, even the world's major countries say that war is undesirable and encourage people to respond peacefully and non-violently, but in reality, arms industries are flourishing all over the world. After the nuclear weapons test in 1945, the race for more deadly weapons continues. In such a situation, the question arises that why should the world be safe from wars? Perhaps the livelihood of the world's major decision-makers depends on these conflicts.

From propaganda-driven epidemics and their treatment to the arms and weapons race, all these seem to be such delicate issues whose truth is unlikely to ever be revealed. Wars not only increase climate change but also increase deadly diseases. Human tragedies including poverty, diseases and food crises are increasing in the world. Above all, the economies of regions affected by armed conflict are suffering from recession, as a result of which the poverty level there decreases further.

A large number of women and children are among the direct and indirect victims of these wars. In short, these wars are a complete human tragedy, one link of which is connected to the other. If the men of any society are directly victims of it due to participating in the war, then the condition of women and children behind them is even worse. In the war in Eastern Europe alone, more than half of the deaths, that is, 250,000 women and children, have been killed, which clearly means that the warring armies have not refrained from targeting the civilian population for the sake of their interests.

On the other hand, in the Middle East, half of the dead, wounded and prisoners are clearly women and children.

The continuation of wars on some front in the modern world indicates that the interests of the great powers are linked to these wars. Sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, the world powers want to gain supremacy over each other. We can see that the great powers are sometimes armed and sometimes involved in political conflicts to protect their political and economic interests.

Everyone is aware of the importance of peace, so will wars continue in some world or the other, sometimes under some name or title, all over the world? Will such deadly weapons continue to be used indiscriminately? Will the loss of innocent lives continue like this?

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