Whoever really wants peace must prepare for it. The opposite is currently the case. The new arms race puts us in the trap of war.
For more than 2000 years, the ancient Roman principle “If you want peace, you must prepare for war”. In this spirit, the defense ministers of all NATO countries are repeatedly calling for more money for the military. Result: wars over and over again for 2000 years. We are still stuck in the war trap that whispers to us: “Create peace with more and more weapons”.
We last saw where this leads in Afghanistan. The West failed there because it wanted to win another war, but not the …
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