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It would seem to me as the population on the earth gets larger wars will become more and more common, not only is there a battle for scarce resources but also the clashing of cultures and conflicting interests. War is inevitable so long as populations of people come into contact with one another.
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War shall probably not get more common, just more destructive. War was more common when settlements were sparse and technology was crude. Bronze-Age Greek tribes would war with each other on a yearly summer-seasonal basis. War was a necessity just to get the resources needed to keep their settlements going (cattle, weapons and land were the usual prizes for victory). The thing is though, due to the technology used and the tactics employed, each campaign only cost a few hundred lives at the very most. It was more a case of territorial boundary-setting as opposed to the modern idea of ideological competition and extermination (waging war to protect people's freedom, what kind of bulls**t is that?).
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Yeah I mean like,going to fight Hitler during the Holucast, what bull, we all know the Jews were having the time of their life in 5 star concentration camps where they enjoyed nerve gassings and machine gun acupuncture. And Korea! Even stupider, just because south korea, the side we just happened to be fighting for, became a productive stable country and north korea became a destitute hell hole doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact with the war. Naturally the South Koreans just decided communism was no good for them and didn't fight at all since we all know that we can't fight to protect peoples freedom. Wait, what about the stupidest hypocrasy of them all! Thats right folks, the Gulf War, I mean, to repel Saddam all Kuwait had to do was say "sorry saddam old chap, we don't want to become your territory giving you an oil monopoly!" it had nothing to do with the fact we annhilated Saddams fighting force that caused him to conditionally surrender. You obviously must be right that you can't wage wars to protect a peoples freedom, complete and utter bull.