Can anybody actually win a global conflict?!

Question from the Internet:

“There can be no outright winner at all if the balance of power is equal between multiple countries because they all have the same defensive capabilities. Do you agree or disagree?”

This question goes much deeper than defensive capabilities. Of course, you are right, with all the available weapons of mass destruction, and nuclear first strike ability we have in the world, there can be no winner in the next world war.

But there is a much greater and stronger reason why there can be no winner in any conflict.

As most people would agree, we evolved into a globally integrated and interdependent world. We can clearly see what chaos and worldwide crisis a seemingly “local conflict” between Russia and Ukraine is causing, affecting all parts of normal life even in the most faraway places in the world.

Before the war, the pandemic also showed how much humanity is a single system, where only positive mutual cooperation and absolute mutual responsibility towards each other can bring solutions — and when we do not have that we can’t solve global problems.

As many say, we are all sitting on the same global boat, which global boat is already sinking. Still, when it comes to decisions and actions we all still behave as if we existed independently from each other as if we could still do whatever we want according to our inherently egocentric, subjective, individualistic and nationalistic thinking and viewpoint.

While we are all sitting on the same sinking boat, we are still blindly drilling holes underneath each other, clearly not understanding that when the boat sinks we all drown — and the boat is already half sunk!

There can be no winners of any conflict in a globally integrated and interdependent world. Either we are all winners or we are all losers. We entered the absolutely practical and actual era of “one for all, and all for one” in human evolution.

If we cannot understand and feel this, if we cannot adjust our lifestyle and behaviour towards each other accordingly, we will soon self-destruct, within this or in the next generation!

Fortunately, we have the necessary vast historic and contemporary experience and the actual method to start building a very different human society — based on Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template. But this rebuilding has to be conscious when we all join willingly, all understanding that giving up our original selfish, egocentric, subjective and exploitative mindset in favour of a selfless, mutually responsible and mutually complementing collective existence is in our best interest.