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>There won't be a war, by the way. I honestly think we're past the point as a species where superpowers duke it out in such a literal fashion. It's just bad for business.

I tried to find the quote and couldn't, but IIRC this exact argument was used for why WW1 never could have happened (prior to WW1).

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Yeah. I'm no expert, but it's my intuition that the hindsight of WW1 and WW2, combined with the existence of the UN and of nuclear weapons, would be enough to change things. But who knows.

At the very least, with how much money America dumps into its military, I think dominating our economy is simply a path of less resistance than trying to dominate our military.

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