Interstate warfare has been at a long-term historic low, so it's harder to call these wars pointless. Nobody fights wars for the hell of it because war is a no-gains game nowadays, since it's considered uncouth (well, illegal) to seize other countries for their mineral rights or take war-slaves, you can't really get much out of interstate war anymore, so you have to pick your battles more carefully. Pointless war is mostly a thing of the past, and even big interstate wars are usually localized around civil wars nowadays (Afghanistan, Libya, even the Russia-Georgia thing was focused on South Ossetia's struggle, any fighting in the Balkans
If you run Interstate Wars that are A: after the Cold War, and B: have nothing to do with Intrastate conflict, you get
A: Gulf War I
B: Gulf War II (2003, which initially had nothing to do with civil war and devolved later)
C: Yemen-Eritrea in the mid 90's
D: Eritrea-Ethiopia in '98
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
