Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
The more complicated the system, the less likely that a simple causality explanation is viable. War is always complicated, so almost always immune to simplistic explanation, and its consequences are almost incalculable.

Points that I argued in this thread long ago

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. --Bertrand Russel