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Author : K. Dolgov
Professor, Doctor of Science (Philosophy)
ALL GREATEST LITERARY CREATIONS
of antiquity, be it the Mahabharata, the Bible, the
Iliad and the Odyssey, the Avesta, the Kalevala
and others tell us about conflicts, confrontations,
struggle, and wars as the most important events
in the history of mankind. This creates an im-
pression that at all times people knew no other
occupations but wars or preparations for new
wars once the previous war was over and that
mankind appeared on Earth and lived on it to
fight and to destroy itself. Progress was and is limited to consistent upgrade of the old and in-
vention of new types of deadly weapons rather than develop personality, its abilities, talents, and
spirituality.
There is no need to look into hoary antiquity; the above is amply confirmed by the wars of the
twentieth century - World Wars One and Two - the bloodiest in the history of mankind. Today,
the symptoms of World War Three are growing more and more obvious.
The founders of all world philosophical teachings, religions and cultures resolutely condemned
evil, hatred, murders, plundering, wars, and everything that brought sufferings to people and
death and that, therefore, should be excluded from social life. We can see, however, that greed-
iness of the high and mighty pushed and still pushes the world into wars between countries and
peoples and even between religions and confessions.
The best members of mankind denounced and continue denouncing wars and armed conflicts.
Some of the religious thinkers, Leo Tolstoy among them, supported the theory of non-resistance
to evil by violence; it, unfortunately, did not stop evil and war but even encouraged them. "War
is murder. No matter how many people get together to commit murder or what they call them-
selves, murder is the worst sin in the world."
Today, the United States which in the last few decades have been talking about its exclusiveness
and its European allies have been pursuing the policy that breeds no hopes for the future but
pushes mankind to a catastrophe. Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, public figure, and one
of the outstanding and world-recognized intellectuals, who has been living for many years in the
United States, is actively objecting to the aggressive policy of the country's ruling circles.
He called the U.S. and Israel "two rogue states" and pointed out: "Remember the worst terrorist
campaign in the world by far is the one that's being orchestrated in Washington. That's the global
assassination campaign. There's never been a terrorist campaign of that scale."
Noam Chomsky was very open about his attitude to President Putin's policies: NATO's provoca-
Contemporary Wars and Armed Conflicts: Sources, Causes and
Possible Solutions