The Emotional Core of War: Why Peace Keeps Failing

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What if wars are not just driven by policy, but by the darker corners of human nature? In this episode of Talk of the Times, Jesse Lee Hammonds (Host of the "It's That Part" podcast) and Attorney Bernie Brown (Host of "The Logical Lawyer" podcast) move past headlines and battlefield updates to examine the emotional engine behind war itself. They unpack how fear, hate, envy, grievance, ideology, domination, and territorial ambition keep dragging humanity back into conflict, from Cain and Abel to today’s tensions involving Iran, Israel, and global powers. This conversation does not romanticize war or flatten it into politics alone. Instead, it asks a harder question: if war grows from the…