What does the proverb- War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left?

Question

What does that proverb suppose to mean?

Answer 1

Because the absence of war is peace, most probably when there's a war there's something wrong.

Answer 2

War is now and always has been about money.

THEY SAY MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL............. BUT THAT IS NOT QUITE SO ... IT IS THE LOVE OF MONEY (Power )THAT IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.. the country with the most money for the most weapons bombs planes etc wins and makes more money, and the Governments  who send young men off to war with their heads full of "King and Country "  really don't give a dam how many are sacrificed for them to achieve their win.

Answer 3

it could also mean something about who is left wing, war brings out the protest in some people while others are happy just to go along with it.

Answer 4

It's a play on words. The "right" and "left" associated as in directions. "Right" can also mean "correct" or "justified." "Left" can also mean "remaining."

War does not determine who is correct (right)

War determines who remains afterward (left)

So instead of saying "War does not determine who is right, it determines who is wrong . . . ," which is what we might at first expect, it plays with the words and is meant to be ironic.

Answer 5

It just means the purpose is to win.  It doesn't prove anything.  It doesn't prove who is "right", or "good", or anything else.  If anything, it only shows who was the strongest, best equipped, best supplied, or had the best strategies and tactics, etc.

The purpose of war is to gain things or protect things.  The propaganda c**p we are fed about honor, or other nebulous calls, is just that:  c**p, and it comes from all the sides.

The only value of war is to gain or protect land and/or its resources.  That's why they have always been fought, why they are fought today, and why they should be fought.

Now, yet again I'll note:  if you don't want war, stop overpopulating beyond resources for the coming generations.  When we pump out more babies than today's resource recovery will stretch for their descendants, war is the only chance to cover those descendants' needs.

Answer 6

War doesn't care if you are right or wrong.

It does matter how many and who survived the war.

How many men were killed and who survived in the war.