Is World Peace possible?

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Is World Peace possible?

I strongly believe that Wars and conflicts are inevitable in today's world. The fact that countries tend to race towards supremacy and dominance places the vision of world peace miles and miles away from us. In today's world there is lack of humanity and just governments. The powerful governments usually misuse their power and cause global unrest and injustice. Now I am going to talk about the various reasons stopping us from reaching global peace.

Dominant countries of this world are filled with greed. It's in their best interest that other minor countries stay inferior to them so that they can act as global law enactors. For example U.S.A entered the Korean War with the main of objective of giving a heavy blow to communism, which was a treat to them. Nowadays the U.S.A and other European countries as well are trying to disarm North Korea from having nuclear weapons while they themselves have a supply of nuclear warheads that can destroy the world many times over. They justify this by saying nuclear weapons would be dangerous in the hands of North Korea, but how can we be sure that nuclear weapons are in the right hands when it is with the U.S and Europe? Global peace is hard to achieve with these conflicts treated in such a biased manner.

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Wars are started for economical reasons as well. If a country gains control over other countries, it benefits their economical interests. As of the times of the Romans, countries have needed expansion of their influence and power to boost their economy. The Romans needed to make wars to get slaves, which were the power house of their economy. Today the U.S.A is expanding its control on other countries through wars. For example if there will be a war against Iraq in the near future, the U.S.A will be able to control petroleum prices, and consequently could control the economical ...

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