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I've never understood the post-WWII goal of permanent peace. Its a great vision to have, but unless its completely infeasible.

Unless we've managed to find ourselves alive at the point in all of history where humanity forever abandoned war all together, there will be another war at some point.

That doesn't mean it needs to happen today or that fighting to sustain peace isn't an admirable, and necessary, action to take. It does mean one still needs to consider the next war though, in case its forces upon us despite wanting peace.

I've had the same challenge when an argument is raised that nukes haven't been used since 1945 so they may never be used. It is quite a feat for sure, but in my opinion the only way a nuke is never again used in conflict is if we invent an even worse weapon and someone eventually uses that instead.



> I've never understood the post-WWII goal of permanent peace. Its a great vision to have, but unless its completely infeasible.

You have to be an American sheltered from any war on your soil for 150 years to not understand the goal of permanent peace.


>I've never understood the post-WWII goal of permanent peace. Its a great vision to have, but unless its completely infeasible.

There is no post-WWII goal of permanent peace. It’s a side effect of the invention of nuclear weapons, which made wars amongst powerful countries a lose-lose scenario for everyone.


The combination of globalization and nuclear weapons led plenty of countries and leaders post-WWII to claim we would have permanent peace.




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