I have finally concluded that war is an unavoidable feature of humanity. I guess I have arrived.
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Study history.
They tend to reserve the word ‘war’ more for aggression between nation states, but if you include territorial warlords all the way down to village tribalism in that category, the times of greatest peace are experience by those who are strongest and all their neighbors know it, and is an exception, not a rule.
never studied history. that didn’t prevent me from concluding, long ago, that “peace is a spoil of war.” as you say, a rare one.