Summary: Its war ever justified? The just war theory is a largely Christian philosophy that attempts to reconcile three things: taking human life is seriously wrong. states have a duty to defend their citizens, and defend justice. It has been adapted into a modern concept of just war in United Nations documents. Zelensky and Putin are both leading countries into war, but is it a just war? „Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: the bravery of my troops hitherto saved me from the greater evil; but to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expens of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune but for the result to the public.“ — Was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, right?
