An opportune time to build trade with Russia

The emerging complementarities need to be actioned.

- AJAY DUA

No war can ever be justified. This was true in the past, and perhaps is even more valid today. In fact, the greater lethality, longer reach and the more pervasive capabilities of modern weapons-especially nuclear and chemical-now call for altogether eschewing it. The civilised world needs to give up on armed conflict as a possible option to settle disputes and differences of varying intensities. After all, none of the causes of the wars over the last hundred years, including the two prolonged World Wars, could be resolved on a lasting basis. A year after the Second World War ended in 1945, leaders of the warring European nations who were on opposite sides during the 6-year-long bloody confrontation, were mingling with one another as they explored collaboration in political, military, and economic matters. To demonstrate that the human race has evolved, and is different from the animal species, incursions across borders need to be declared illegal and unacceptable under all relevant international laws and dispensations. Simply put, war is not the answer.