how did WWI & II help realizing the importance of political/peaceful negotiations?
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they were so costly and destructive that it made people realize, that on a major scale, war just wasnt worthwhile anymore. For a long time the idea of “total war” like seen in world war 2 didnt really exist, people could live through wars in the past without even realizing it because in many cases, victory could be determined by a handful of battles, as opposed to an endless, years long conflict with constant fighting. in the past feeding and paying a few thousand men for a few months could get a leader vast riches like no other way could.
Now war is way more expensive, it is cheaper and easier to use politics and influence to gain power. One such modern example is China in Africa, unlike european colonizers in the past who directly conquered africa. China has gained massive amounts of influence over many developing nations by offering huge loans to them that allows those nations to modernize, but also put that nation in debt to China, and working in a way that is meant to keep the Chinese investing in them, so they avoid making china mad. This means that china has gained a decently sized backing in those countries and in the UN as well without going to war.
This doesn’t apply to absolutely everything though, war obviously still exists, but in most cases at least one side of that conflict is people who dont have a national government or are fighting against their own, (such as the conflicts in syria and yemen), and are trying to gain one.
heres a video that explains the idea pretty well:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs)
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