People were tired after WWI. Now we’re tired after Viet Nam and endless Gulf wars that solve nothing.
Not necessarily. One thing we gain from wars is experience. We learn what works and what doesn’t work. Both North Korea and China lack recent combat experience. The Soviet Union was the same way. 40 years sitting on Go button was just too much for them. Their equipment turned out to be suspect at best.
“People were tired after WWI.”
And rightly so. Europe lost an entire generation to a meat grinder. One could argue they still haven’t fully recovered. Wilson dragged America into that carnage kicking and screaming.
Less than a generation later we were again embroiled in two horrific wars because we fell asleep at the switch.
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