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Zkuq said:

I'm sorry if I'm being ignorant, but I don't honestly remember. Would you be so kind as to remind me when a war has been the only option, or even the only sensible option? I'm mainly talking about the attacker's perspective, since defense is pretty much always the only sensible option when someone's attacking you.

No, u are not ignorant - the simple fact that u are asking = u r not ignorant. I'm not native English speaker so the rest of my post may be a deep mess, but i will try to show u another point of view.

The rest of ur post - if I see it correctly - is like " there is no justification for war, never ever ". Sadly, all of the biggest and most famous civilizations on this planet were created only by conquer and wars. All of them, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, USA, British Empire etc. The one who won wars created a country, later the empire, the ones who lost their wars vanish. 

U are asking me where war was the only sensible option - everytime when the challengers do not get high enough place in the world order, that they deserves thanks to theirs military,economy,etc power.