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Completely disregarding which president is in office, I always thought the paradoxical way to minimise war is to ensure you have a credible threat of retaliatio
by nomilk 3y ago
Completely disregarding which president is in office, I always thought the paradoxical way to minimise war is to ensure you have a credible threat of retaliation. That means if you are attacked, you must fight back, otherwise your credibility falls and you become more of a target, thus emboldening adversaries and increasing violence.
- happytiger 3y agoThere are a lot of ways to prevent wars. That’s just one. - Promises not to go to war - Reduction of armaments - Machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations - Economic penalties against aggressors War doctrine is a very complicated subject, as is even the definition of war in modernity. What causes a nation to declare war is unclear and difficult to reliably determine, but there is often a period or circumstances of instability or a immoral act that precipitates them. The US appears to be going into a period of isolation and the world without global shipping protection is going to look radically different.
- bshipp 3y agoJudging by the declaration of war against Ukraine by Russia, it appears an underappreciated aspect of the equation is equal measures of senility and insanity.
- i67vw3 3y agoTrue. You have put it more succinctly than me. In Geopolitics, 'Might creates deterrence.' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory
- defrost 3y agoAs in "the Might of the USofA deterred Osama Bin Laden from attacking"? There seems to be a flaw or two in that as a truism.
- anigbrowl 3y agoThe problem with this sort of logic is that it becomes incredibly easy to bait states into disproportionate responses that end up as strategic failures - either due to bad PR or deploying force against decoy attacks and leaving holes in places that matter.