How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by WalterBright on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:28PM (#42021729)

> as all wars must end; otherwise people keep fighting

And up is up unless it is down :-)

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Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by mmooss on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:31PM (#42022204)

I'll try to keep my sentences shorter for you. :-)

It's not that 'wars must end, otherwise they keep fighting', but that there is 'a political settlement which satisfies enough participants to create stability ... otherwise they keep fighting'. [0]

I will stipulate that the sentence could have parsed more clearly. :-(

[0] It's just Clausewitz, effectively: Warfare is politics conducted by other means.

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Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by arunabha on Saturday November 02, 2024 @12:20PM (#42027313)

> It's just Clausewitz, effectively:

Drink!

Apologies to fans of Bret Deveraux :-)

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Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by penteract on Friday November 01, 2024 @08:44PM (#42023086)

I think that was intended to be read as "how all wars must end" rather than "because all wars must end".

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