Doomsday Clock ticks 30 seconds closer to midnight, thanks to Trump

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KingofTrolls said:

Of course, if we talk about " average Joe" there is no and never will be any reason to war. So why the hell humankind's history is driven by wars ? Because every country is losing or gaining power and this is impossible to always keep a balance to satisty everybody. Even China, who has the world most peaceful culture is now messing up with Vietnam sea etc. Simple because Chinese people want to be rich as European are. Sadly, in China alone u got 2x more people than EU+USA. If u want to make all people as rich as " rich" people are, u need kinda like 8x the Earth's resources.

It's a little more complicated than that. Historically, countries haven't even existed the way you consider them today. You had kingdoms or city states, that typically had the capital or monarch to run it. Wars depended on the rulers hunger for power, but also army needed to be funded somehow, which was to attack and rob someone. As generals had lots of power on the army, the had to have something to do to prevent the generals from going into rebellion.

When we talk about "country", it's typically considered a unit that belongs to and is ruled by it's people. This is why nationalism ended the British empire, and why you sometimes see people saying USA isn't a country, for example. Nationalism and democracy go usually hand in hand, and when the people gets to decide, they don't go into war, because it's the people who's asses are on the line.

KingofTrolls said:

Anarchist ? Who knows. I just tells it like it is. Every dominant coutry always try to impose it's agenda on others,weaker countries since 2000 BC.

That's only partially true. Esentially you're talking about imperialism. Two nationalists next to each other are pretty much happy with border between the two.