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    I’d question the idea that failed diplomacy is always due to stupidity or irrationality. People’s interests are shaped by emotions, power dynamics, and values not just logic. Even when opinions and interests seem irreconcilable, there are often ways to avoid war if both sides are willing to make concessions. The challenge is that compromise often feels like a loss, which is why diplomacy sometimes falters.ZisKnow
    Clausewitz looks at war from the perspectives of nations states, but there's the notion of war as a civil war, which is a rather different kind of monster.

    Civil wars can happen when the society simply breaks up and cannot take care of it's members as before. If someone can come up with a civil war erupting in a state where the economy was great and people prosperous, please tell me, because I don't know of such a civil war except for perhaps on exception (and likely here I'm showing my ignorance). The exception that comes to my mind is the American Civil War, where at least to history economical hardship wasn't the reason for the war. But here I can be wrong.
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