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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
This was the argument prior to WWI, that a major war between great powers was inconceivable because their economies were so intertwined and interconnected. Turned out it didn't matter, they just bit the economic bullet and went to war anyway.
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I think that its hard to make the connection between pre-WW1 and the current situation mainly because the modern world intertwinning is so different, plus a large part f the major war between the great powers was based around the whole secret alliances, plus familiar connections.
I don't believe that anyone in the modern war has lost the belief that nation state wars cold happen, it just faded into the background in the dawn of the war on terror.