If that was the goal, the war seems a strange way to go about it. Killing several tens of thousands of young ablebodied citizens, ruining your army, sinking you

If that was the goal, the war seems a strange way to go about it. Killing several tens of thousands of young ablebodied citizens, ruining your army, sinking your navy's flagship and causing record unemployment in your own country's main manufacturing hub… I am not an economist, but I dare to suggest that a better way to reach that policy goal could be found.