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Originally posted by Nachtrafe:
[Yep. That, and the silly notion that you can end war by either talking it to death, or signing a treaty about it. FEH! No war, in recorded history, has ever been successfully stopped by a treaty, unless one side had already beaten the other. Treaties can be *forced* on the loser by the winner, and can be *enforced* by said winner. But the treaty, in an of itself, is nothing more than a piece of paper.[/QB]
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Talking, treaties, and brinkmanship kept the Cold War from going Hot. So I would say that they certainly have their place in diplomacy.
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