In this article, I’m not going into the genesis of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas bloodshed or the ongoing battles and violent conflicts in Africa or other parts of the world.
But to briefly re-portray the very nature of war and the reckless role armed forces play in executing the deadly and destructive aftermaths of their offences and defence operations.
In these consequences, humans behind the machines indiscriminately kill fellow human beings.
They bury their consciousness before the dead get buried.
Flattening the buildings a few moments before were live with people, old and young, children and toddlers who ran out for safety. They die in the rubble that becomes their cemeteries, hurt and crushed during the dreadful moments. Survivors become homeless and refugees. In just a few minutes, the brutalities of war create miseries and calamities that people endure for a long time.
Modern wars are much more destructive, hugely expansive and extremely damaging to the environment.
In the deafening din of almost non-stop shelling, birds cage themselves in the safe corners of bombed and razed buildings. They look up at a battleground in the sky.
Armed with their deadly military hardware, from fighter planes to rolling tanks delivering their gunfire, the brutal march of the combating forces opens with indiscriminate killings and destructions.
The whole scenario draws a horrible and devastating look. The war we can helplessly see live on TV screens and iPhones, a melodrama of catastrophes created with all the advanced and sophisticated artillery and machinery enacted by battle ‘heroes.’
It presents the cruel nature of war. Its tragic impacts are much more severe than accomplishing the stated and symbolic aims of self-defence and the ‘just’ motive.
Leaders can talk and talk and talk. But with mindset commitments, there is no resolution. War becomes a necessity because there is no trust in human nature.
Humanity suffers as nations step into senseless fights, hoping that war will bring peace. It does not.
It is often said, “wars are necessary when every other option becomes impractical.” Is it true?
Instead, the statement poses a real challenge to our ordinary intelligence, considering that war is not an “option.”
Wars are crimes against humanity. The tradition of war eliminates our peace and safety.
Contemporary global society, to which we all belong as one humanity, must resolve to eliminate the menace of war. It is a blight on humanity in this age while we collectively pride ourselves on intelligence, knowledge, and scientific achievements.
The consequential resolution demands that every nation on Earth dissolve its armed forces. No young man or woman thus ever enters a profession that is knowingly a destructive and murderous job.
The resolution in red letters also demands the worldwide shutdown of manufacturing factories producing weapons of mass killing and mass disaster.
With a sole focus on profit, these manufacturers supply weapons indiscriminately to both sides, the aggressor and the aggressed. The trillion-dollar war industry will collapse, but let it be to save humankind and our environment.
The concepts of no armed forces and no manufacturing of weapons are not ideological, utopian, bizarre, or new.
Twenty-four countries globally, from Costa Rica to Ireland, have already demilitarized themselves, some of them decades ago. They do not have the manufacturing plants to produce all the software and hardware contributing to the horrors of war. These wise nations present a world role model without violent, destructive, and deadly conflicts.
Let us do it for peace for ourselves, our future generation and our environment.
Promod Puri.com 