tbf the only reason NATO worked to avoid another continent-wide war was the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Alliances are great for winning wars! Preventing wars, on the other hand, they require the presumption of rationality on the part of state actors, which is only sometimes true. Elites are great at getting high on their own supply…
“Certainly THIS web of alliances will create eternal peace through deterrence in Europe instead of another continent-wide war!”
Hey, NATO’s working out… at time of comment.
tbf the only reason NATO worked to avoid another continent-wide war was the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Alliances are great for winning wars! Preventing wars, on the other hand, they require the presumption of rationality on the part of state actors, which is only sometimes true. Elites are great at getting high on their own supply…
skavau is a clown