I travel the world a lot and wars are the ugliest thing that could happen to a country. I lived for 6 months in Damascus. It was an incredible city with lots o

I travel the world a lot and wars are the ugliest thing that could happen to a country. I lived for 6 months in Damascus. It was an incredible city with lots of History. It breaks your heart to remember people younger than you that you know are dead now. The country is devastated and everything stops working. You go to Servia, normal people could barely survive, long after the war. A few guys made themselves rich at the expense of normal people. You go to Congo(old Zaire) and experience so much pain over the war there. In Congo it is about Cobalt and coltan, diamonds, gold. In Syria it is about strategic position, natural gas. In Libia it is about energy resources. A couple of powerful countries decide to plunder weak countries and war is the way they do it. If their leaders are not ok about plundering their own country you just give millions(or billions) of dollars in weapons to the opposition. Once a war is started, it is like a drug, both sides needs weapons just for survival and they will do anything for getting them, basically selling their country for almost nothing. A huge business at the expense of entire families dying and loosing everything they have, women being raped and the state collapsing, infrastructures destroyed.