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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by int_19h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:08PM (#22828574)
The book didn't argue that the war wouldn't happen, only that it would be economically disastrous for everybody involved, and thus to choose to go to war is foolishness, since everybody is strictly worse off than they were before - i.e. there are no absolute winners. Countries did go to war anyway, and, exactly as predicted, it was a disaster for all of them, proving the point.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by credit_guy on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#22829012)
Most people think WW1 was so bad because people kept killing each other (with machine guns, artillery and poison gasses). Less so because they severed their commercial ties.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by int_19h on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:50AM (#22839865)
Today, yes. But in that era? The notion of declaring a war to profit from the plunder (or reparations, or whatever you call it) was not yet dead back then.
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