The true causes leading to ruthless wars in different parts of our vast planet are very diverse and, as a rule, carefully hidden from ordinary people. But the consequences of ruthless battles are always equally deplorable and destructive.
There has not yet been a war that would have passed without human loss and sorrow. Everyone knows that brutal hostilities always bring irreparable losses to any state and its people, regardless of whether it is an attacker or a defender. But are there any significant reasons worth all the sacrifices made by the military leaders and rulers of states in pursuit of phantom goals? Turning to the sad pages of history, let us try to highlight the main motives of the warring parties to start bloodshed. More than four centuries ago, civil wars broke out in France one after another. Fierce battles were fought between the French Catholics, who at that time constituted the majority of the country's population, and the Protestants, who were in the minority. The "bone of contention" of those battles was religion. Different views on religion today remain an actual cause for debate between followers of different religions. And in previous centuries, when the church had almost unlimited power, this motive was one of the fundamental factors of the war. The reasons and grounds for the Trojan War are still contradictory. According to one version, the battle was provoked by the Trojan Paris. According to numerous myths and legends, he stole a wife from the Greek king Menelaus. For this, the Greeks decided to take revenge on the Trojans. Gathering a great army, they sailed under Troy to set foot on the warpath. Many military battles were initiated by territorial divisions. Organized armed violence has been started many times by sovereign rulers who want to increase the vastness of the state and replenish its treasury. An excellent example of battles for territory is the Livonian War, which broke out in 1558 and continued for long 25 years. The battle was fought over the territory of the Baltic States, which at that time belonged to the Livonian Order. The reasons for the emergence of wars in our time are, most often, geopolitical in nature. Developed powers, under the guise of compliance with world law, forcefully expand their spheres of influence. Also, the basis for modern local wars is the desire to control the extraction of strategic natural resources, such as oil, gas, rare metals.
