Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

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The last thing one would think of when reading the phrase ‘war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength,” is that our wars are actually our confessions of weakness. We tend to think of war as an act of aggression on the part of one group or country against another group or country. But, in truth, war is a response to an act of aggression. If you go on to look at why it happened, there's always a reason that an act of aggression was committed in the first place. There's always a reason that one side was attacked or threatened.

Source: The Life Of Poetry

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