War, an event that seems synonymous with humanity.

• "Wherever this vessel cuts through the horizons, our allies will rest easy and our enemies will shake with fear because everyone will know that America is coming and America is coming strong," Trump said.

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Hello steemians

18 days ago I posted my first diary session, a way of expressing my interest in understanding the human mind and interests.

Today, after hearing about the new carrier and getting on with Dunkirk, I couldn't help but think

why?

The influence of war on humanity

Since the beginning of human evolution, evidence from history has shown that man has engaged in warfare for a number of reasons, either for territory, freedom, religion or lack of communication, the basic principle remains that humans resort to the taking of arms in order to settle differences.

No set of event, bar mass extinction threats by disease, has made more impact in the human race than war. Innovation in science mainly driven by military applications and uses, inventions created to ease the life of soldiers, only in the late 20th century has science been driften apart from the military at a slow pace.

human ego and warfare

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In certain instances, war becomes inevitable, the French revolution comes to mind. In others, proper communication channels were all that were needed to prevent a war.

Whatever the case may be, a party leader holding down to a belief system, whether sensible or not, not letting up on pride nor conceding to an opposite ideal leads is what leads to an engagement.

A favourite quote of mine, unfortunately from an unknown source states;

• Weak men bring about war and strong men arise. Strong men bring about peace and weak men arise.

Indeed a cycle is born, where war is a constant, and for much of human history, indeed mumans have engaged in one skirmish or the other.

When we count war as the taking of arms between two sets of people, then we begin to see that peace, no matter how we see it, hasn't really been the default mode of humanity.

The war on terrorism and WW3

Despite the peace we as humans claim to have currently worldwide, terrorism abodes in multiple locations worldwide, from the middle east , to the shores or Africa, touching Europe and even having pockets in the United States.

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the darker the shade, the more active the terrorism
Nigeria unfortunately has been hit by a spat of terrorist attack for some years now

Not yet cleared, there has been growing tension around Asian waters, with Trump, Kim jong-un, Putin and the Chinese president all putting their hands deeper into mystery of immeasurable disastrous proportions.

All these events unfold to what could possibly be a nuclear war of the likes earth has never seen before.

@oluwoleolaide wrote a very interesting topic about the cost of war here

And @gavvet has been writing some very interesting pieces about wars within Africa as a whole,
His latest being the south African border wars

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A big question remains though, is man a being of war or peace. .