Humanity has a history of ideologies that ignite conflicts. We also have a tendency of blaming some external source (a god, a book, an individual) Religions are some of these ideologies. Additionally, these religions have the tendency to be conserving. They stick to the lessens learned thousand of years ago. Times change and new lessens are learned. Humanity progresses beyond the old lessons. As long as conserving religions learn to dislike and even want to exterminate other religions, as long as they refuse to learn from human progress, as long the mutual conflicts will persist. This is why reacting or getting involved in these conflicts if they occur is useless. If groups of people refuse to participate in human progress and get involved in conflicts as a consequence, it is their own choice. And the consequences are their own problem. The Islam-Judaism and inter-Islam conflicts will persist as long as they don't share in the learnings of humanity but stay frozen in times by learn...

We often talk about 'the west' but there is more to it, I think. And this (more) has major implications on geopolitics. We should talk about the (autocratic) land people culture versus the (free) sea people culture. Is it the war for Ukraine and the potential war for Taiwan, or is there a deeper war going on? I think the latter. Let me explain. I see the world moving forward from a (land) nations dominated organization into a free space network organization. I can see a history of wars between freedom and serfdom. The most brutal ones have been the wars of the west and Japan against China. Think about the brutal Opium wars and the Second Sino Japanese War . And the permanent battle with sea powers surrounding it from the Russian Empire in all its forms of appearance (Communistic or not) till today. We live in a time when these wars culminate into global conflicts and new wars. Probably and hopefully the final wars. Beijing, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris have one thing in common, t...