War makes demons of men
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You forget the long brutal war is what makes people go to the negotiating table not because they want to. It’s the fatigue of war that makes disputing parties willing talk realizing the other side is much stronger then they had anticipated. All parties who engage in war would never negotiate if they could completely destroy their enemy before they became fatigued but that never happens except in some rare circumstances.
That might apply if wars were fought for the reasons publicly stated. In any analysis of wars in the last couple of centuries, that's the first delusion that has to be pitched overboard.