Past lessons can be forgotten. New attitudes can be sawed in current minds. The common folk didn't went to war because of the ability to become an officer or fo

Past lessons can be forgotten. New attitudes can be sawed in current minds. The common folk didn't went to war because of the ability to become an officer or for some financial advantage, he went "for king and country". Now they go "for freedom and democracy". On the upper levels things haven't changed much - whether it's lands with wheat and strategic high-ground mountainous possessions back then, or it's land with oil and strategic places for military bases now, in the end it's basically the same. On the cultural note with its attitude toward the war, it's just all about the strategical reality. When you grow in power, you get options. At first you choose to pick the low-hanging fruit, so you hunt down the smaller countries and/or weaker territories. Then when these are finally split-up among the powerful, the clash of titans it's only a matter of time. Soon after WW2, when the most countries got their independence, a new round of this sadistic game begun. Maybe we're not in the finals again right now, but it's only a matter of time. I would like to think like you do and have hope in humanity to become wiser and outgrow this things, but the reality appears to me a little bit different.