By – Pamarty Venkataramana

The Bible says that ‘wages of sin is death.’.

The wars of crusades were waged between two desert religions. Several cult figures emerged over the hundreds of years of evolution of these two chief cults of thoughts and real life practices. In reality and truth,it was mere fragmentation with opposing thoughts being at conflict. This led to further acrimonious interaction and bias. The prejudiced powers that be began to foment dissent and create disturbances in the mindsets of followers.

Soon,the French Revolution created fresh words called – liberty,fraternity and equality. With this,messages of original prophets and proponents got further messed up. These complications led to bitter enmity in narrowed hearts.

Mob mentality surged. Factions grew in strength with weak representatives getting corrupted and going astray from the oath of righteousness that the respective founders showed as a pathway to glory and salvation.

Net result,evil machinations multiplied and land grabbing for natural resources became the style of expansionist elements. League of Nations got disbanded but successor organisation turned out to be hydra headed.

By virtue of puppetry’s plays,shadow rulers turned into larger than life figureheads. The script of developed,under developed and developing nations began to drive a wedge in psyche as well as policy making.

Two giants began to role play the bull and bear with a dragon raising its large head silently. Rest became victims of subterfuge and caught in act shadow acts. Even as innocuous and imaginary issues like racism,casteism and poverty began to trouble the concerned land masses,a devious financial engineering was underway coupled with arms dealers aided by drugs-smugglers overtaking supposedly democratic institutions of governance around the globe.

World order now became a matter of hegemony and might is right principle came to reign,unchallenged.

Wages of war are death.

Be it economically,socially,politically,physically or spiritually,moral compass stops working. The good conscience is asleep. Attack and assault becomes both a form of defence as well as starting point. A small coterie carries out the ignoble mapping of the devilry giving it noble terms such as national interests and so on..

Yet,who are the sinners? Do the perpetrators of war crimes hold themselves accountable to loss of innocent lives or the innocence of general public?

Who dies in a warfare ?

Is it the soldier who is trained and employed or deployed to kill another human though dubbed as the enemy or,is it the pedestrian population which runs helter shelter to bomb shelters and bunkers to escape carpet bombing and drone attacks from the skies?

Why do people tolerate war scenarios?

Is not a propped-up leader of a supposedly weaker country as big a culprit and butcher of lives of his hapless people when he exhibits false bravado to challenge a mighty and allegedly evil force ?

If he were a peace-loving individual,wouldn’t he serve the larger interests of his people by acceding to the raider via table talks?

Wouldn’t such a personality be crucified if he were to invite mercenaries from foreign lands to join in a battle of not the choosing of the peoples?

What then is the difference between an abattoir and a homeland if the one elected to lead invites further violence?

Are not those that egg wars demented? Souls are list. Jesus was crucified. Ali was assassinated. The crusade wars raged on.

Peace has been ravaged by failed religions on the planet.

Death visits all.But hastening the death of innocent civilians and mauling economic systems for sake of fossil fuels and other rich resources is more than barbaric.

Bio labs are the newest weapons of open airfare. Once only whispered in corridors of power,military might is farcical and no army has real fighters today. Those which have are peace loving bands,well disciplined. Cantonment areas have now come to be encircled by colonies and commercial complexes.

The sinners are political elements that hobnob with greedy,cruel manufacturers of weapons and the indispensable middlemen (often the bureaucrats,leaders and few media folks are these broking agents).

But,who is the biggest culprit?
Undoubtedly,the priests in flowing beards and robes that incite hatred and violence against fellow citizens or those who do not subscribe to their tunnelled beliefs about gender equality and humanity.

May the evil perish in their own bunkers and ditches on the land, in the skies of poisonous air and by the beaches that harbour nests of villainy.

Peace is the anti thesis of war. Death does not pour life. Peace kills wars. Wages of war are only deprivation, destruction and diabolical death.

So,end the ongoing #UkraineRussiaConflict and rather than supporting with mercenaries and weaponry,may the western world lend their peace by offering to send their respective elected heads of State to the war zone and invite the indomitable Vladimir Putin to shake hands with them and amicably end this war of sinners.