The only way to bring peace to the world！！ 02
～Let us refuse to wage war for the sake of someone's greed～
※This Japanese text was translated using Google Translate. Please let me know if there are any unnatural expressions.
It is highly likely that all of us humans are blood relatives.
Especially in regions connected by land, one could safely assert with 100% certainty that we share a blood connection somewhere along the line.
Are you really going to make such distant relatives kill one another?
I would like to ask the powerful figures around the world who seek to instigate wars:
You were born of the love between your father and mother.
Your father and mother had parents of their own—your grandparents.
And those grandparents had parents, too—your great-grandparents.
Naturally, those great-grandparents had parents as well.
If you trace your lineage back ten generations, you have 1,024 ancestors. That is a number one can still visualize.
However, go back thirty generations, and the number of ancestors exceeds one billion. At thirty-one generations, it is two billion; at thirty-two, four billion; at thirty-three, eight billion; at thirty-four, sixteen billion; at thirty-five, thirty-two billion; at thirty-six, sixty-four billion. Go back forty generations, and the figure reaches 1.024 trillion; go back fifty generations, and the number of ancestors actually exceeds two quadrillion...
These are numbers beyond imagination. Yet, unless that vast multitude of ancestors had existed, you—as you are today—could not exist.
Let’s consider the span of thirty generations. If we assume an average age of twenty for childbirth, that takes us back to 1426—a mere 600 years ago. Even with an average age of twenty-five, it goes back only to 1276—750 years ago. Thirty-five generations back would be 1326 or 1156; forty generations back would be 1226 or 1026...
In Japan, forty generations back lands us in the Kamakura or Heian periods—eras for which historical records exist and the timeline is clearly understood. This pattern likely holds true globally as well.
The numbers are staggering: 8 billion people thirty-three generations back, over a trillion forty generations back, and 2 quadrillion fifty generations back... Of course, this does not mean that so many distinct individuals actually existed. There would have been cases where different people shared the same father. There were undoubtedly countless instances where individuals who were actually distant relatives married without realizing it, just a few generations down the line.
One billion, two billion, four billion, eight billion, 16 billion, 32 billion, one trillion, ten trillion, 100 trillion, 1,000 trillion... When you consider the sheer number of ancestors involved, if you were to glance at the person next to you, it is highly likely that you share a blood connection somewhere—whether 600, 750, or 1,000 years ago. In fact, given the vast number of ancestors, it would actually be stranger *not* to be blood-related in some way.
There is a saying that "all humanity are brothers," but perhaps we are all actually relatives.
It is true that many Japanese and Russian people likely do not share a blood connection within the last thousand years or so. But who knows? There might have been Russians who migrated to Japan in the distant past, and following the Russo-Japanese War, many people of mixed Japanese and Russian heritage were born.
What about Russia and Ukraine? They were originally part of the same country—the Soviet Union. Wasn't it quite common for Russians and Ukrainians to marry one another?
That is certainly true; yet, when you consider the span of one or two thousand years for the people living in these contiguous regions, it is likely that very few—if any—do not share some ancestral blood ties, even if they currently identify as Russian or Ukrainian. In fact, it is surely more natural to assume that they are indeed connected by blood somewhere along the line.
And yet, look at the situation now: people who almost certainly share ancestral ties are being forced to kill one another—people who, left to their own devices, harbor no mutual resentment or bitterness. The very act of "war" itself is wrong! That is what I want to strongly assert.
Even the powerful figures who make the decision to go to war likely owe their current status to the efforts of ancestors from a few generations back. However, it is highly improbable that the descendants of those ancestors' siblings—for instance—all hold positions of power today.
There are surely many instances where even those with close blood ties are sent off to war at the stroke of a command. Just because someone happened to rise to a position of power, they take the lives of others... Is that right?
Let me say this once more.
It is the young who are sent to the front lines of war. It is always the young. And it is young people who end up taking each other's lives.
Why must young strangers—people who do not even know each other's names, who harbor no mutual grudges or grievances—kill one another for the sake of someone else's profit or someone else's desire for glory?
People need to realize this; the citizens of the very nation waging such a foolish war must rise up and speak out against it.
That is the first step toward eliminating war from the world.
If not for war, the young men sent to the battlefield would not have lost their lives.
Had they not lost their lives in war, they might have married the people they loved.
Had they not lost their lives in war, they might have built warm, happy homes filled with laughter and family togetherness.
Had they not lost their lives in war, they could have pursued the work they loved and fully tested their potential!
Had they not lost their lives in war, they could have dedicated their entire lives to the work they truly wanted to do.
If only there were no war!
If only there were no war!!
If only there were no war!!!
Mr. Putin, you worked incredibly hard and rose to become the President of Russia in a single generation. Yet, you were not born into royalty or anything of the sort; you come from an ordinary background. Surely, you understand the hardships and joys of the lives led by ordinary people.
Aren't most of your relatives and friends from your youth just ordinary people? Aren't you sending the children and grandchildren of such people to the battlefield?
Why do you rob ordinary people of their modest dreams?
I repeat: Russians and Ukrainians share 100 percent of the same bloodline. I say this with certainty. After all, their lands are contiguous.
Even Mr. Putin surely has the blood of people born in Ukraine running through his veins. Given the shared landmass, it is impossible that their ancestors did not intermingle over the course of one or two thousand years.
It is only natural to assume that Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy are connected somewhere along the line within the last millennium or two.
Russia may have its own arguments—claiming, for instance, that Ukraine provoked the conflict first. However, it was Russia that struck the first blow this time. And it is a fact that Russia has destroyed numerous Ukrainian urban areas and killed many civilians, including children.
（To be continued in the next installment.）
