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World War One was no more inevitable than the Cold War going hot was.

I lived half my life being told that there was no way that could end peacefully.
It just seems unlikely that we could go a century without a major war. Even the Renaissance had the Italian Wars.
 

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It just seems unlikely that we could go a century without a major war. Even the Renaissance had the Italian Wars.

I get the feeling that 20/20 hindsight is influencing us too heavily though.

I think it was in John Keegan’s History of the First World War there is mention that a book was published in 1912 that a major war in Europe was no longer possible because the nations were all so closely interlinked by trade and the cost of another war would be so high that it would have to halt after a few months.
 
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