Why Can't We Just Be Good Neighbours?

Withworld war threelooming on the horizon, everyone Is holding their breath and praying hard so that the current tensions on the eastern block do not spill out of control into world war three. The antagonists on both sides are not willing to give an inch of territory, none of them wants to be the first one to blink.This tense atmosphere brings back the memories of thefamous Winston Churchill's speechin Fulton, Missouri, which went like...''an iron curtain has descended across the continent…''well if Churchill was alive now, he would still say that the iron curtain is still in its old place. The iron curtain Churchill spoke about decades ago is still right there on the spot and is going nowhere.The days of theCuban missile crisisare still lingering on when both superpowers each equally armed with a stockpile of lethal weapons were ready to bring an apocalyptic end to the planet earth. Every living day of our lives we hear about wars and rumors of wars. There is not a single year that even passes without hearing about conflict or fierce fighting happening somewhere in the world. How have we come to hate each other so much to the point where peace is a rare anomaly that often interrupts the regular lifestyle of warfare? why do we keep promising peaceful co-existence with our next-door neighbors while we secretly pile our homes with lethal weapons of unimaginable destructive capabilities? These days peace has become so elusive like a wildcat that you only get to catch a glimpse of once in a lifetime.Right now any kind of direct warfare between the superpowers will surely reduce the globe into nothing but ashes. There will be no survivors in the fight let alone victors.There can be no winners in a nuclear warfare kind of confrontation, all the superpowers know this very well but they still continue squabbling like little infants fighting over a piece of ice cream. Someone needs to talk some sense into the rulers of the world and teach them that fighting does no one any good. it's in the hands of the United Nations to