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(Spoilers ahead) If I recall correctly there was no actual war in the universe of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oceania just pretented wars were going on to keep citiz

• mido22 8y ago
  Nope, they keep switching alliances and suddenly the enemy has always been a friend and the betrayed continent had always been their enemy.
  • DKnoll 8y ago
    "It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist." There was the implication that the wars are not truly being fought, such as in the quote above. That was my interpretation anyway. War is never actually witnessed by the protagonist, it's just used as a rationalisation of various actions by the state.