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Militaries are used as a matter of last resort normally. And its only a cause of bad diplomacy, if all else fails. Thats also why wars of aggression are frowned upon. Maybe not true for the US and their insane President but for every other place usually its only to defend. Murder isn't defending. If not under very specific circumstances its right to be frowned upon
Oh! My mistake! You're new to this planet and its indigenous species. They REALLY like war! As a matter of fact it drives most of its math and science.
Here, stick this in your ship's AI and ask it to make a ratio between war and peace:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17449365-the-penguin-history-of-the-world
They even make entertainments of it!
https://youtu.be/fbT1fCHOjfI
None of this invalidates my last statement. Europe hasn't had a war between EU members since it was founded. But it also has nothing to with my argument against using violent means in a half-working democracy when it comes to CEOs and individuals alike. And even in situation where wars are used I would say in most cases its not really a good answer since it comes at great costs
That's an odd choice. WWI and WWII started in Europe. What does the EU have to do with anything? Because you picked some arbitrary cutoff point that's supposed to mean anything?
Internally the EU has been a strong diplomatic success. I'm showing that violence shouldn't be the only option for change because its not. Comparing civil infighting with state wars was very arbitrary to begin with