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Re:Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World by kubanczyk on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:21PM (#22250615)
Neither. One crucial thing changed: nuclear weapons can hurt leaders as much as they can hurt their armies or their populations. We've never had such experiment in the entire history. And oh boy aren't the results just fine.

In 1910 or 1930 going to war was a breeze. There was no incentive for major leaders not to do it.

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Re:Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World by baybal2 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:04PM (#22250967)
Good observation, the advent of modern technology made it much harder to have "small, victorious war".

All conflicts in between major powers risks becoming a total war, or a deep conflict very quickly.

Paradoxically, the deep economic interdependence today can actually incentivise conflict, with thinking "it will hurt them more than us"

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