Shakhin, Iskandar

ENG 1201

Prof.Casey

Mar 18, 2022

Will another world war start?

There's an old saying that says war is never good and peace is never terrible. However, if we look

back far enough in human history, we will see that wars have existed since ancient times. Although

attempts to remove it have been attempted, no progress has been achieved so far in this. As a result,

eternal peace appears to be out of reach. There are many who excuse wars by claiming that they are

required by nature's laws.

They make their point by putting Charles Darwin in the center. He was the one who established the

survival of the fittest theory. He claimed that in everything of nature, both sentient and inanimate, there is

a constant struggle for dominance. Only the fittest will emerge victorious in this battle. As a result,

conflict is considered necessary for civilization to develop.

No war can compare to world wars. WWI and WWII were huge wars that affected millions close to a

billion people. Even with allies and Nato. Will be another world war like WWl and WWll.

As of right now, the Ukraine crisis just one conflict or the beginning of World War III?

Putin (Russian president) wrote a major essay in July 2021 explaining that Russians and Ukrainians are

truly one nation, and that neo-Nazi agitators have deceived the Ukrainians. Given that Kyiv was the first

seat of the Russian Orthodox Church, the first half of his thesis has some historical justification. In the

second section, however, it was Putin who was duped. He should've known better. During the

Euromaidan protests in 2014, many Ukrainians defended heroically.

Fears are growing that Russian President Vladimir Putin's offensive, which would be the greatest

conventional military invasion since World War II, could be the start of a new global conflict. The war is

currently being fought in Ukraine's eastern, southern, and northern regions, in places such as Kherson,

which was recently taken by Russian forces. 19 kilometers outside of Kiev, a large column of Russian

military vehicles appears to have stopped. However, the longer the Ukraine crisis drags on, the greater the

chance of an "inadvertent escalation," or something going wrong on the outskirts of the conflict, causing

it to spread.

This is all the information we have as of right now. Russia wants to take over Ukraine but Nato countries

like the US that are supporting Ukraine might cause the deadly world war.

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