Nuclear bomb is not a bubble from a toy gun. It kills, maims and vanishes millions of innocent people from the earth surface who do not know why they are killed. It is not only the present generation who suffer, the bomb pushes the future generation to hell. The bomber nation cannot run away with a victory smile; the economy destroyed in the victim nation has a deeper negative impact on the economy of the nation which drops the bombs. The countries acquire the nuclear bomb to use it as a deterrence against predator nations. Why do they want a nuclear bomb for deterrence? Because today’s world is nothing but a Jungle Raaj; the rich and the strong nations want the weak nations to serve their business, geopolitical and defense interests. Why do the strong nations dominate the weak nations and force them to serve their interest? Because there is nobody to regulate the rich and the strong nations. The UNO only watches and gives sermons. The attacking nations do not bother about its existence. The rest of the rich and strong nations act only when their business interest is hampered. There is no brave cause left for them to raise their voice and weapons against injustice. The business interest overshadows the moral courage to correct things.
The Jews had faced genocide and the worst human tragedy in the history of mankind. They have not forgotten their history and do not want history to repeat. They have worked hard to become economically and militarily strong to survive amid neighbors who want them to become homeless again. Their aggression originates from their anxiety of losing their land, people, culture and religion again. They have become die hard fighters, innovators, Nobel Laureates, farmers, scientists, business magnets and architects etc. Anything they do, they reach excellence. The Hamas attack on Israel has turned everything upside down and caused a war which cost hundreds of billions of dollars; the expenditure could have been used for reweaving economic fabrics in the entire middle east. Any kind of fanaticism whether economic fanaticism or religious fanaticism is sheer madness. The mankind pays heavy price for this madness.
Only good thought can save the world from further deterioration. The core philosophy of India “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam”(the world is one family) scores a point. Live and let live principle will not only save war expenditure but it will let the world community amass wealth and happiness. The phenomenal economic growth of India between 3rd century BC to the 12 century AD attributes to this philosophy “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam.” Indians went to foreign countries not to colonise them nor to exploit their resources. They internalized Indian culture and tradition for peace and prosperity of those nations. One will come across the traces of Indian culture across the Asian countries, Africa and in America in different names. India fell from grace because their leaders lost their vision to unite people to achieve common objectives. Vasudaiva Kutumbakam does not mean one should lose the capacity to defend his own land, culture, religion and people. China occupied 38000 sq km of land in India. Pakistan had also occupied 73935 sq km of land in India. India, despite winning wars and in an advantageous position to defeat China in 1962, could not protect its land due to lack of strong leadership. Indian leaders live the principle of the world as one family and forget the principle of protecting its land even after winning the wars. The main dharma of a nation is to protect its land, culture and religions from foreign aggression. A powerful nation can only work for peace.
A leader can make his country rich, happy and strong amid healthy global trade. Countries can exchange skills, ideas and technology in a transparent manner to build trust and lasting cooperation among themselves. What more does one want beyond wealth and happiness? The grave mistake committed by some countries is their ambition for global dominance which destroys diversity- the core strength of economic resilience. This is high time for a change in thought process.
