There is a saying that many use:
The ends justify the means
Usually when they have to destroy a city to "save it".
Or do anything that would be considered bad, in their pursuit of their goals, and don't want to be considered the bad guy.
The phrase is most often used by govern-cements that want their "citizens" to accept the evil they intend to wrought.
And just as countries use this, individual people do to. For such small things as selling their soul to a corporation so that they can continue to be paid. Selling all their time while their children grow up without them noticing. Or marrying the wrong guy because "he is rich" and so the children will not have to worry about straving.
The ends NEVER justify the means! And i will try to explain how and why herein.
The path to something contains all the attributes of that something
If you are on a journey to find happiness, every step along the way contains some happiness.
Thus, if you trying to find happiness, and your steps do not contain happiness, you are going the wrong way.
This is a truism. It is just a different way of stating the Law of Attraction. You attract that which you are a vibrational match to. If you are a vibrational match to happiness, you will find more and more happiness. Your journey will lead you to more.
If, instead, you are looking to stop sadness by getting rid of the "bad guy", there is no happiness on that path. In fact, what you are attracting is sadness. And the only thing you will do is bring more sadness, and if you defeat the "bad guy" (by invading the country) then you will bring even more sadness.
The people of that country may choose to attract happiness, despite having been invaded. And, this will go against whatever the invader had intended. And, what really sucks is that the invader will not stop, even though happiness came to that nation, because they are blinded. They cannot see the happiness, there focus is on the elimination of sadness. The two are not similar at all.
We do things in order to get things.
We are often doing things in order to get other things. And this leads to many hardships and unhappiness. Because one does not equal the other.
Like, people act nice, so that people will be nice to them. This sorta works because if you are truly being nice and are attracting niceness, you develop more niceness. But, if you are only acting nice, because you are in fear of others, you will often get many other responses, like people withdrawing from interacting with you because they feel something is off. Like other people responding in anger, to bring about what you fear. Like people being afraid of you.
If you are doing something, only to get something, you are inadvertently doing the means for the ends, that you will not get.
We also do this to the universe. We ask the universe to give us a million dollars, so that we can feel rich, or so that we can buy a lambo. When it is far easier for the universe to just get you a lambo. And a million dollars will not make you feel rich, if you are not already in a frame of mind to feel rich.
If you have wants, ask yourself, why do you want it. And with that answer, ask why do you want that. Repeating this you will get to the bottom of what you really want, and why.
Like, if you want a Lambo to impress your friends, so that they will like you more, so that they won't abandon you… well, you really need to work on your fear of abandonment. And the Lambo will not help you with that at all.
Ending war
The ends never justify the means, and if you are walking a path that doesn't have the attributes of where you want to go, seriously look into yourself. Find what you really want. Find out what you are truly attracting.
Starting a war, to have peace is just stupid. You will never get there from here. In fact, if you have an anti-war protest, you are still attracting war. If you want peace, start with finding the beginnings of peace. And then find more and more peace.
People in the future will find that it is just better to give your "enemy" what they want than to go to war. (this requires finding out what the "enemy" really wants. And, when you do that, then you can actively look for peace. And when we are both doing this, then both parties will get what they really want, and closer bonds can be formed.
(and for those who believe i am saying to pay-off raiders, which will only attract more raiders… You do not give them money, you find out what they really want. Perhaps they want farm tools, or provisions for the winter. And both of these can be negotiated with, and actual trade can be started. Or, maybe they want a good battle, for which a contest could be set up.)
So, when you hear some form of "The ends justify the means" by the MSM, know that they are lying and that they are just looking to get public approval for their atrocities.
And as long as we still believe "The ends justify the means" we will fall into many more traps.
We must break ourselves from doing things to get other things. Unless we have an open, and upright contract from someone else to provide what we want, for what we are giving.
Such as, if you do something, so that your girlfriend will love you, then you are going to get resentful, and your girlfriend is not going to love you. Unless it is something that you love to give, and it is something that she feels loving when receiving.
Remove these from your life, and your life will go much better.
And, if enough of us do this, the countries will not get away with saying, "We have to invade them, to save them, and we must bomb their cities to keep their cities from being destroyed, and we must blow up women and children, to save the people…"