this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
65 points (87.4% liked)

Asklemmy

44151 readers
1360 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I was thinking about how we (USA) are always in continuous (ghost) wars and never try to negotiate for peace, to my knowledge.

How would a peaceful world look like?

One country and one languague or would a world power have to forcibly join everyone together?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] bouh 1 points 1 year ago

I don't believe in a worldwide empire. The problem is that wars and occupation only fuel resentment and revenge.

There are two problems today IMO : inequalities and imperialism.

Inequalities is basically the western countries living on the exploitation of developing countries labour. The tendency is quite good I think though with the economies going back a bit to local production, it should balance things a bit if developing countries can catch up and stabilise.

Imperialism is very concerning though. The war for power between US and China can be very bad for everyone. Smaller countries or old powers refusing the evolution is the other problem.

IMO there is a paradox to see: bigger wars means that bigger nations are fighting, but they're going to stabilise ultimately. Europe saw wars for about all of history, culminating with the world wars, but ultimately the EU was born. I some way, the biggest the war, the biggest the place that get stabilised after that. Unfortunately it means some unfortunately big war may come in the future. But maybe the government will be reasonable at one point in front of the possible destruction of today's weapons.

To answer the question, I see a peaceful world as a big version of Europe : cooperation and no frontiers to build respect, friendship and human links, and a place for each country to be reasonably itself. There is a very long way to go though.