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    the continuous war,

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    the age of war never seems to seize since the beginning of time.

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    Humans seem to always find some reason to battle and fight.

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    Whether it's the ancient romans dueling in the

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    colosseum or medieval knights jousting atop horses.

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    Battles were always prevalent in many different cultures throughout history.

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    The author thomas Hardy got to experience the build up of the first Worldwide War,

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    World War One

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    with the world on the brink of war.

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    This influenced many of Hardy's literary pieces through the two poems,

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    drummer Hodge and Channel firing thomas Hardy tells readers how he feels

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    about war and anticipates what the future is going to be like.

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    To summarize the two poems, drummer Hodge and channel firing.

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    Drummer Hodge describes the fate of a young soldier, drummer Hodge,

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    who goes out to fight against the Bowers in South Africa and then dies in some battle.

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    He was hastily buried by his fellow soldiers.

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    Channel firing depicts a graveyard being disrupted by

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    the sounds of warships firing out at sea.

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    To give some historical context to drummer Hodge and channel firing.

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    The two poems were written 1899 and 1914 respectively.

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    The primary influence on these poems was World War I, which began in 1914.

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    World War One pitted many of the central powers of the world against each other.

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    There are around 40 million casualties worldwide,

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    many of whom were young men who were enlisted

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    and never actually knew what they were fighting for.

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    This left the entire world in the state of anger and confusion

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    Thomas Hardy believed that more and more war wars

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    like World War I would inevitably occur throughout history because

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    all nations strive strong to make red war redder

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    hardy was almost instantaneously proven correct in his assumptions.

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    As World War II quickly ensued.

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    Only 20 years after World War I and 10 years after the death of the author.

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    Mhm.

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    Over 100 years later, Thomas Hardy's predictions still ring true in society.

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    In late February of 2020 to Russia's

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    President Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine with

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    the ultimate goal of overthrowing Ukraine's government and

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    claiming the land as part of Russia.

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    This invasion lets the fear of a possible world war.

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    If Putin's invasion spilled over into neighboring NATO countries,

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    NATO,

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    a military alliance between 30 countries says that the 30

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    countries will band together if a country outside of NATO

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    decides to attack a country. In the alliance,

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    Russia is not a part of the NATO alliance, but Poland Romania,

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    Slovakia and Hungary are all in neighboring countries

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    to Ukraine that are part of the alliance.

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    So if Putin were to cross over the country lines

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    with the intent of invading any of these neighboring countries,

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    it was decided amongst the NATO countries that they would go to war against Russia

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    with this World War three became a legitimate fear in civilians around the world as

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    they all watched as Russian planes began dropping

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    bombs on Ukraine and sending in their soldiers

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    the Russian invasion not only affected europe,

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    but also other countries like the United States.

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    When President joe biden

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    made the decision to cut off one of Russia's biggest exports oil to the U. S.

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    It was a critical step taken to punish Putin for invading Ukraine.

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    It severely crippled the revenue going to Moscow but consequently

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    raised gas prices to record highs around the country and

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    left americans in other countries reaping the detrimental effects of

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    the Ukraine war,

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    thomas Hardy's message in many of his poems was that war is just

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    what humans are going to do and they will continue to do it.

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    Over the course of history.

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    His poems,

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    drummer hodge internal firing spoke of past soldiers in their experiences with war

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    thomas hardy told the dead soldiers and

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    channel firing that war was going to continue

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    in the future and that the world has not learned from their past efforts.

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    His assumptions were correct.

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    As many wars have occurred since the poems have been written.

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    The Ukraine war reflects the messages in

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    the poems as another world. War almost broke out

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    thomas hardy voices, opinion through the poems,

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    drummer hodge and channel firing In these.

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    He acknowledged that war was going to be prevalent in the world throughout history.

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    He believed that these wars were senseless and almost pointless to society.

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    He almost felt bad for those soldiers that came before

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    because the world has yet to progress from violence.

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    His assumptions about war were proven correct time and time again and now,

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    even 100 years later,

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    we have yet to learn from the past as war continues on in the world.

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    The recent Ukraine War proves many of Hardy's points about

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    war as it almost turned into a Third World war.

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    The only thing we can do to counteract Hardy's prediction is

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    to learn from the past and choose peace over violence.