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Morality of the Wars of Aggression


            History tells us that almost every strong nation in this world has at least, tried to stamp its dominance over a weaker country. This was first shown by the early world powers of Spain and Portugal, who conquered among themselves several territories for their utmost conquest and control. Another great aggression of weaker states was that of Germany, Italy and Japan, which led to the Second World War. Now, we have the case of the United States and Britain waging an all-out war against Iraq. These things bring us to the following questions: is there morality in all these wars of aggression? Did these powerful countries have the justifiable reason to declare war and conquer the weaker nations? .
             Answering these questions would mean analyzing the reasons why these superpowers engaged in war. To this, the immediate response of these nations is that they need to do so inorder to uphold peace in the world, promote justice & equality, save the citizens of the weaker state from oppression & suffering and seek social order. These reasons are merely not enough to convince the rest of the world that war is justifiable. Scholars and even the common people believe that these superpowers go to war because of the very basic need of every nation to survive.
             But, what really is meant by the essential need for survival? It means that in this world of limited resources and at the same time overflowing needs of the people, only a limited number of nations can have access to the resources, thus we have this concept of competition to satisfy these needs, where only the strongest and the fittest survive and get the chance to enjoy them. Superpowers want to establish their hand over other nations to make sure that their respective citizens are secured of their needs, not only for the present but in the future as well. Another underlying and real reason superpowers go to war is to ascertain its military, political and economic dominance and show the world that they are a great and strong nation.


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