> As recently as last year I have read people proclaiming that war was "obsolete" because it was too expensive because we are too economically intertwined, but

> As recently as last year I have read people proclaiming that war was "obsolete" because it was too expensive because we are too economically intertwined, but apparently this is not a big enough of a deterrent for some leaders, so again we can never count on this idea again, it was naive. You might be right about this, but I'm not yet writing it off. So far, it seems the most affected countries are not as integrated as the others, like Sri Lanka, and Pakistan (of course them more so than Sri Lanka). When it hits an economically integrated country with power, then we'll see what happens.