war actually tends to be more of a pride or fear thing

really? you believe these leaders to be that stupid?

WW1 lasted so long cause no one wanted to back out once it started

"neighber is getting dangerous, better kill them while im still stronger" "im so powerful i have right to anything i see"

emotions are not stupid, they are aside of inteligence

Yes

caeser was a genius

"im so powerful i have right to anything i see" <- this is a war land someone wants

over land*

its not about the land though, its about the claim

back in the day people would create monuments specificly stating the size of their empire and challanging anyone to rival it

those people dident get empires like that by being fools

but a claim like that isn't starting a war.

ill say were consiterably mild compared to then

Even in cases where it was over land, what do they want the land for?

i mean napolian only wanted to one up alexander, and he got away with trying it twice colapsing frances economy twice

even hitler was only interested in europe because it was a matter of pride to reclaim the sutendatenland

_fucking butchered that language_

i don't really care about why someone wants land. At the end of the day, its because someone wants land.

some times its pride, sometimes its resources.

so the question is, what land does russia want and why?

it seems like they want the old USSR back

which i highly doubt would lead to a real WW3

most times its pride, its usually resources when the opposing faction is absolutely so weak they are consitered another species to the conquirer or its soviet russia

or the mongols

eh the mongols it was a matter that once the khan united the tribes the only way to keep them together was to send them to war

they seem more content to be cheeky bastards and hide behind "local" forces. If they wanted WW3, they'd have out right invaded people by now.

same thing happened with atilla

america is also one of those rare places that only wars for land and doesent care about anything else

because we are ruled by nihilistic capitalists

the good of the people is in spite of progress not the goal in the land of oppertunity

they want land so any future enemy doesn't have it

or you know, to keep our uncontroled consumerism ever more bountiful

theres a reason we use a disproportionate amount of oil compared to our population

you gotta burn money to make money

or it could just be our general power usage

yes

I mean, war is pretty much a zero sum game.

Anything you gain, is a loss for someone elese.

Even resources you gain in land you already own, more resources is an advantage over ones adversary.

So I guess its kinda resonable and paranoid to think that way.