Why Are Wars Increasing? Strife, Slumps, and the Cost of Ego | Sastry Speaks

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🔥 Sastry Speaks: Why Wars Multiply in an Age That Should Know Better

Look around the headlines and you’d think the world has become a quarrelsome neighbour.

Borders flare, alliances snap, leaders shout, and soldiers march.

Wars are multiplying — sometimes declared, sometimes hidden in the grey zones of cyberattacks, proxy fights, and trade blockades.

Strife and slumps seem to be today’s global uniform. But why?

It is not for lack of knowledge.

We are the most “educated” generation in history, armed with algorithms, satellites, and Nobel prizes.

And yet, the oldest flaw — ego — still writes our scripts.

Nations behave like children fighting over toys, only the toys today are pipelines, ports, and ideologies.

Wars, you see, do not start on battlefields.

They begin in boardrooms, parliaments, drawing rooms — in the stubbornness of hearts that refuse dialogue.

The missile is only the final punctuation to sentences written long before.

But here’s the irony: every war eventually ends at the same table where peace could have begun.

Only, by then, the chairs are stained with blood and grief.

The slump that follows — economic, emotional, human — is simply the bill presented for arrogance.

And history shows, it is always paid by the ordinary citizen, not the generals.

So why are wars increasing? Because we still mistake force for strength, noise for negotiation, and pride for power.

And as Sastry sighs with dry humour:

“If humanity could invest half its war budget into listening, the world would have fewer widows and more wisdom.”