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It would have been stupid not to try peace.

Germany hasn't invaded France (or vice versa) for two generations now. The Soviet Union dissolved itself peacefully by act of parliament. (Compare to Germany/Japan/Napoleon)



"Peacefully" is a strong word, that same parliament would later be "peacefully" removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_cr...


Can you name a more peaceful end of an 20th century empire?


If you want peace, prepare for war


And if you aren't prepared, but you have peace anyway, you never really made the choice. You just had a bout of luck.




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