>Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often. That transition happened

>Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often. That transition happened at basically the precise point the world transitioned from a multipolar situation to a bipolar one. I'm not saying bipolarity brought peace, but there's hardly any evidence that we've gotten any better at multipolar situations.