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Well, that's why I specified "in my lifetime" at the end... Because, yeah: Maybe the American Civil War was necessary (though the Constitutional Amendment that ended slavery [the 14th] makes an exception for prisoners. And the majority of American prisoners are Black, so there's a fairly convincing argument that racial slavery hasn't really ended as decisively as we tell ourselves).

As for WW2 -- Germany invaded other countries to gain an End (for some purpose) and it didn't work. From what I understand of the history I learned, Hitler's desire for German purity was so deep that he couldn't abide the idea of trade with other nations, or of negotiation, or compromise, So if he wanted Germany to have resources it needed, he need to invade other countries and make them "German," too.

And it didn't work. War did not make Germany stronger.

On the small scale, on a case-by-case basis, I can see how joining a war for self-defense may be necessary.

But I don't get the "Institution of War" as a whole.

Also, I'm writing this as the citizen of a country where the leaders of the political party now in power are planning to put lifetime caps on medical insurance for the poor, and sending agents of the government, armed as if for battle, into hospitals to arrest parents for being illegal immigrants while their children are in surgery.

And our "Commander in Chief" wants to undo nuclear disarmament, and create whole new classes of nuclear weapons.

And I just don't get it.