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Your praise of war comes off quite naive. Perhaps you figure "war" or violence as viable solutions despite being a much more connected world where diplomacy an
by vagrantJin 6y ago
Your praise of war comes off quite naive. Perhaps you figure "war" or violence as viable solutions despite being a much more connected world where diplomacy and fairness can be judges more democratically. Such talk of war is neccesary is an utterance of someone born on the right side of the fence and quite clearly no clue as what they are talking about.
- macintux 6y agoAsk Ukraine about the practicality of disregarding defense as a necessary evil. It’s hardly naive to assume that, since there has always been conflict, that conflict will continue for the foreseeable future.
- deeviant 6y agoTake this from an extremely liberal and war-abhorring person: If your argument is that a country should not take steps to secure it's supply chains in the event of a war because <morals or something>, then you are the naive one.
- vagrantJin 6y agoThat's why diplomacy works for the vast majority of countries. War is expensive and the costs are always more than anyone ,regardless of how sophisticated they believe themselves, could possibly imagine. Take that from someone who lost a large chunk of his family currently in an African - shithole as the US president aptly put it- country. I'm on HN because this is the most peaceful time in recent memory. Do me the favour, at the very least, to put a handle on your dillusions grandeur. In our connected world diplomacy should be the only way to resolve national conflicts.
- afiori 6y agoSure, but countries also need not to be codependent for diplomacy to succeed. Diplomacy and trade are the basis of an international peace that might last centuries, but to work properly it is necessary that countries strive to also be potentially independent otherwise you get global crisis and situations where military threats are necessary to force diplomatic relationships.