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Only war can bring lasting peace – opposite side

  The topic is “only war can bring lasting peace”. ‘Only’ means with no others of the same group or style existing or present; while ‘war’ means a fighting between nations or groups within a nation using military force. Also, ‘can’ means able and ‘bring’ means result in or cause something to be in a certain state or position. ‘Lasting’ has a meaning of continuing for a long time, while ‘peace’ is a state of freedom from war or violence. Therefore, this topic means that war is the only way to achieve peace that can last for long.

War doesn’t bring peace, but it leads to the beginning of another war. The peace treaties signed after wars originally aim to settle the conflicts between countries. However, the defeated countries think that they’re treated unfairly; they try to prove they are actually more superior to others. For instance, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War, which reduced its army, and required it to pay a huge indemnity, etc. The Germans thought they were treated unfairly and they tried to end the treaty. This allowed the rise of Hitler, who ruled Germany with dictatorial power. He wanted to show that the Germans was more powerful than other races, so he started the aggression in other countries, which finally led to the Second World War. This shows that war isn’t a way to peace; instead it’s a way leading to the outbreak of another war.

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War has many bad effects, for example, deaths and injuries; it also destroyed many facilities in different countries. For example, WWI killed more than 8 millions people while WWII killed about 37.6 million people and it also destroyed millions of farms, cities, houses factories roads, railways, etc. These great destructive consequences had much greater effect than the short-term peace brought by the World Wars. Moreover, since many people and other living things are killed during wars, people don’t feel peaceful because they aren’t living in a peaceful condition. Therefore, war isn’t an effective way to bring peace to the ...

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