One war that we are all aware about that started around 1988 is the Al Qaeda versus the

United

States. The ironic thing here is, what the Al qaeda truly wanted from the beginning is just to disperse the

soviet union community camping in their lands, then what happened? What turned them into terrorists? Al

Qaeda is a group of Islamic people, that spread through out Asia with a perverse form of making and

proving their point. They want to prove how powerful the Muslims are, how they could conquer this world

and make it more than what it is today. Better, brighter, innovative and harmonious. They blame the Western

culture of how much they affect a Muslim’s discipline and devotion. How much the western influence is

ruining all nations. From their own twisted standpoint, they think terrorism is for the common good. They

think they could conquer the world with threats and violence and fear. The scary thing about this is watching

the group evolves from one ideological thing to one monstrous thing. It’s not anymore about proving their

point as a religion or as a nation, it’s about stealing the hegemonic throne, being on top and ruling the world

already.

Another war that have sparked from greed for power is the north Korea and South Korea war. The

division happened at the end of world war 2, when the United States fought for the south and the China

handling the North. The conflict never bulged until today; North Korea, never once taking off their eyes to

their glorious nuclear bomb and South Korea, holding themselves against by training all their men to be ready

to fight at any given time. Before the said division, Japan held Korea for so long since 1910, when the Soviet

union declared war against the Japanese to colonize Korea, they’ve come into an amendment with the United

States, dividing the country into a half: North and South. But the amendment sooner deceased when the

north decided to ignore it and ambitiously invaded the south. United States then, together with the other

countries, to hold their dignity and pride as the hegemon, pushed itself in to the battlefield, acted like they

were there to defend the South when actually; they just wanted to remind everyone of how much power they

could render to the nations that will choose to follow them.

The sparking war of China against the Philippines for defending their territorial access to an island is

also an example of defend and conquer. China, shoving guns and threat to the Philippines is one way to

prove that they have the military defense capacity to protect what they think they have, or rather, what they’d
like to think they have. Which the Philippines obviously didn’t have. The America, on the other hand, pushing

in to the issue again, giving off their support to the Philippine military team is just another move to remind

their hegemonic power once again. Plus giving them the advantage of streaming some of their forces around

the Philippine archipelago to watch over the other countries that surrounds it that may hold branches of their

worst enemy, al Qaeda.

There is also this war between Ukraine and Russia that some thinks as Russia’s attempt to take over

the Crimean peninsula, seeing it as one fragile land that they could easily cross through the borderline. At

first, The Ukraine’s blame to the Russian government was ridiculous but as soon as Vladimir Putin admitted

it, the tables have turned. Because of this Ukraine have to defend their threatened sovereignty and dignity as a

state and has to show even an ounce of power against Russia. When the revolution started, when Ukraine

started to mobilize their armed forces and reserves, Russia accused United States and the European Union,

out of the blue, of helping and funding Ukraine to direct the nation against them. But the conflict really

started when the Supreme Council of Crimea voted to separate from the Ukraine and join the Russian

federation instead. With this, the united nation quickly reprimanded the decision with most of the nations

condemning Russia of breaking an international law of violating Ukraine’s sovereignty. Now two questions

raised from the issue: What could the Russia possibly want in the peninsula of Crimea? For one thing, could

this be a territorial thing? A hegemonic competition, with Russian trying to steal the crown from the United

States? Just this week, Obama stated that Russia might just as well be proclaiming for the third world war.

Proof that all nations still treats hegemony as a crown or a throne they could always be stolen with enough

risks and arms.

Now let’s talk about security in the 21st century. Defining security from the dictionary, it’s the state

of being free from danger or threat. Without me enumerating all the wars that are happening right at this very

moment, let’s cross out these wars for a moment and think about the crimes that is happening every second

of the day: Assaults, frauds, homicides, burglary, rape cases, drugs, woman as sexual intruments and child

abuses and all forms of frauds; you cannot sleep without locking yourselves in, you cannot walk into streets
with you phone dangling out, women are said to provoke adultery from men, human trafficking and all those

youngsters doing drugs. I do not need to justify how dangerous our world has become because of humanity’s

greed. Greed for wealth, our great passion for money, for fame, for power and even attention.