DrDoomz said:
Soundwave said:
If you actually read up on the Cuban Missle Crisis it's frightening how much of war being avoiding was simply dumb luck. A bounce the wrong way and it was over and the chain reaction is stunningly frightening, for example not only was Russia going to get hit with an immediate nuclear strike, but Europe was (via Russia), but even beyond that China was slated to actually be attacked first, because the US knew in an all out war, they had to neuralize communist China as well, so they were actually on the dockett first.
The death toll would've been enormous.
And you said it yourself. WW2 shows you what happens when you have 3-4 different countries in a dick waving contest and how it took humanity straight down the toilet to our most shameful moments.
Look at history, show me where evenly mached divergent super power nation states have been able to avoid war, every chapter of human history says that's not true.
Three World Wars in a span of 100 hundred year is nothing short of an embarrassment either. It's like saying you got into three drunk driving accidents, and the last time you almost killed someone, but now you feel OK about driving again. Like sorry if I don't trust that person for shit. They don't deserve to be trusted.
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Let's not start intellectually insulting each other. We've gotten this far without doing it, after all. Of course I've read about the Cuban missile crisis.
Would've. Casualties would've been enormous (due to technology and population). The third world war you are talking about never happened. It is hypothetical. We avoided a third World War (by the skin of our teeth), where we easily fell into 2 World Wars prior to that. If that is not growth, I don't know what is. These days everyone knows the horrors of that kind of war and no one wants a part of it.
Every chapter of human history is encapsulated in war. For various reasons. With different numbers of powers commanding different eras. You are asking for impossible proof and you know it. Because there has always been war in the past. It is cultural growth, and a better understanding of the horrors of war and the understanding that the next great war would be the end of everything that has kept modern powers from warring amongst themselves, not the existence of a single superpower.
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Just to point out for this tree, that the superpowers' dick waving contest have been done by proxy war since WW2. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the list goes on.
Typically democratic nations do not go into war, because essentially that eould mean people putting their own asses in the line of fire. Back in the day the monarchs ruled their kingdoms, there was constant war, not because of the monarchs being hungry for war, but because the army was expensive to upkeep, so you needed to rob someone to feed your army, and it needed something to do to prevent the generals (commanding the army) from going against the king.
WW1 happened in the first place for various reasons: there were revolutions in some countries, others had bad relationships and alliances with each other, etc. WW2 was continuation to WW1 with some of the countries being unhappy with how the first one ended.
Today, trade seem more important than military, and the best defense you have, is that cost in attacking you would be bigger than the gain.
