What’s to stop the side that loses the virtual war just having another go in reality? Can you really imagine Biden or Zelensky or Netanyahu just accepting a loss and giving up?

I'm dead serious here.

Of course, absolutely. It’s a serious question.

There is the issue that Biden or any other elected leaders are answerable to their electorate, and other institutions in their country, in a way that authoritarians are not, so it’s a matter of the commitment of the nation too, but that’s not directly an issue with the simulated war concept. It’s nonsense for purely practical reasons.

No? What is your point?

War games stop would-be belligerents all the time. It's probably the only thing keeping Taiwan a democracy.