100 years ago, in 1914, it was thought that a big war in Europe would be stopped by a then new weapon: the machine gun. Deaths from its fire were so terrible, that folk believed that not one government in the world would go to such bloodshed. The war that began in that year's fall took away the lives of 10 million soldiers in battle. Hunger and sickness killed another 10 million soldiers, and totally, about 40 million civilians were killed.

Today, it is believed that the factor holding back a new world war are core weapons.
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The machine gun was made by an American inventor, Hiram Maxim in 1883, and became the first widely-used, viable automatic gun, making a revolution in warfare. A trained soldier with a rifle of the times could make no more than one shot every two seconds. The machine gun allowed for firing up to 10 shots for every second, with each bullet having a range of 1 kilometre. Two or three machine guns could hold off attacks from colossal unities, and begot terror in the foes' hearts.
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Berlin sent Sankt Peterburg an ultimatum: "In 12 hours, the Russian military mobilisation must be stopped.". And at the same time, a like ultimatum was sent to France. 12 hours later, a German diplomat asked the Russian foreign minister if Russia was going to stop military moblilisation, and the answer was no. The German diplomat then gave him a note. By accident, there were two versions of the note given: one if Russia stopped mobilisation, the other if Russia went on mobilising. In both the notes, Germany declared war upon Russia.

The tsar's family left Sankt Peterburg a few years ago, and lived in Tsarskoye Selo. Evening, on August 1st, tsar Nikolai II returned from services at the monastery, and was told about Germany's war declaration. The governor at once telegrammed the German kaiser. It was unanswered. Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna then said this about the war: "The fight will be terrible. Mankind will face colossal hardships." The German kaiser, Wilhelm, was her cousin. At dinnertime, the tsarina and her daughters were in tears.

Evening, on August 1st, German soldiers went into Luxemburg. Within a fortnight, the country was under full German military administration. August 3rd, Germany officially declares war upon France. August 4th, Germany invades Belgium, and in answer, Britain declares war upon Germany. August 6th, Austriahungary declares war upon Russia. And so the war began.

It was first called the "(Second) Great War" (with the first being the coalition/Napoléonic wars), then "Empiric War", and only much later called the "First World War". This war, which by all means didn't have to happen, forever changed Europe and the whole world, turning into one of the most terrifying wars ever, and sadly swallowing the lives of tens of millions of folk.
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Who can like war?

^ The winners. Especially the winners that had to put little-effort, and thus see a post-war economic boom

>_> America

War ! What is it good for ? Absolutely nothing!

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Everytime a megalomaniac bastard takes over a country in Europe, we over here on the other side of the atlantic profit. Not only the USA; the latin americans do too.

Thirty Years' War -> Weakened the dutch so we could kindly have them fek off.

Spanish Succession War -> While they were busy killing themselves, we were taking our clay west of the Tordesillas Treaty line.

Napoleon -> King of Portugal moved here, turning Brazil into a united kingdom with Portugal instead of a colony, and when the prince stood here instead of going back, we became independent.

Wilhelm -> With Europe just mass-making weapons, we had to produce our own stuff, so we industrialized by then.

Hitler -> Took the world's eyes away from our own fascist dictatorship, and despite having some clear connections to the nazis (we sent them quite a lot of commies to kill), the fact when the war came we said "eh, we'll send in one or two squadrons to Italy to fight for "democracy" and call it a day" made the US not say a word about our coolio torture methods. And you know, when you leave a fascist in power for too long, the country just grows massively. And we did. Also, the USA bribed us hard to join the allies' side and not go neutral. Where do you think we got our companies from? ^_^

Napoleon -> King of Portugal moved here, turning Brazil into a united kingdom with Portugal instead of a colony, and when the prince stood here instead of going back, we became independent.

Yeah, that whole thing was pretty ridiculous, moving the capital borough to Janeiro and then keeping it there, until forced out by Brazilian independence.

Edited 4/28/2016 23:28:21

Trench warfare made WW1 the worst and most in humane war of all time.

German troops got the idea of wielding poison gas from Herbert Wells's book, "War of the Worlds", as part of a strategy of total warfare. The gas's effect on British-French lines was extremely demoralising and effective, killing all those who did not run back, and the German military command did not count on it being so effective, as they didn't have enough troops to take advantage of the disorganisation and break the lines.

Today, "total warfare" is proposed as deliberately killing family members of "terrorists".

But it wasn't the trenches that made it bad, there were far worse things in this war. Artillery unities with firing ranges of over 100 km, poison gas, genocide (done in Armenia, planned to be done in Poland/West Russia).

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u should read about chinese unrestricted warfare

Governments love war, it's a way to greaten their power while expanding their protection racket. And government officials and other folk usually don't even have family that go to war, and when they do it's a publicity stunt to rouse nationalistic fervor. The best way to avoid war? Abolish governments and stop organizing societies around violence.

War is a condition of humanity. While we should seek to minimize it, it will happen, and we should be ready and willing to win. And it is better to be feared than loved. Peace should be used only to prepare for war. Only by being unbeatable can we deter others from attacking us.

The best way to avoid war? Abolish governments and stop organizing societies around violence.

Well, way before governments were a thing, humans were already killing each other for territories, ect.

Governments kind of avoid that by creating a global defensive mechanism in which everyone needs everyone, so if a country completely collapses, it will cause huge trouble in the neighboring vicinity.

Well, way before governments were a thing, humans were already killing each other for territories, ect.

This^

War (Or at-least organized violence) predates government. There's no reason to believe ending government will eliminate war.

What is evil? Is it a fact set in stone, which classifies us by our actions in due accordance? Or is it an idea concocted by man, to control the masses by infringing upon them the thoughts of one?

What's justice? Whose justice is true justice? Why must one keep from doing what he thinks is just because another has power over him? Justice. It is so abstract, yet so important to humanity. Without it, we perhaps might have never traveled down the path of advancement. Yet because of justice, we have killed each other to prove what is just. Yes, the ones who determine what is just are the winners.

But is this fair? This way of deciding what is justice, is it just? To the winners, it is just, but to the subdued, the defeated, the shamed, it is evil.

But the more important question is: Does anyone care?

~Me

Most of us in the modernized world can agree that war is atrocious, but when one thing happens that one nation doesn't particularly like, it all of a sudden becomes necessary. We have seen it so much throughout history and before history that I wonder if it is actually a part of our nature.

let not forget that this year among all recorded history has the lowest war deaths, most peaceful time and so forth

Folk have been organizing themselves through violence for most of history and prehistory. A tribe is run by a tribal government, it's not like they get a free pass because they jump around in loincloths with spear in hand.

Governments fight for land and resources, don't act like the folk of one geographic area just decide to kill another group of folk for something, they're thrown into war by a government, be it fascistic in nature like the US or tribalistic like the Zulu.

Folk join the military for a reason: They don't want to be governed by another government. And guess what, this doesn't fix anything, it ends up either in you being governed by the same rulers or being governed by another set of rulers, it ends in the same product: You being ruled over.

You want to stop being attacked? Be ungovernable.

get your anarchist bullshit outta here

if u got a pot of gold and u being the hermit that u are live in the woods all by urself

guess wat gonna happen. some organized government is gonna put a bullet in ur head and take that pot of gold

u still gonna get ur ass attacked

u know why??? cus wars are fought over resources nd power jut like u said!!

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Wars are fought by governments, yes. No governments, no war.

let go to ur hermit fantasy

u got 5 ppl called the WACO tribe

u got another 5 ppl called the CONFEDERATE tribe

u followin?

the 5 ppl organize cus it better to chill together and fight together? why cus collectively u get to survive togethr

the confederate tribe got some yummy slave. so wat do? u take ur gun and SHOOT them all and take da slave

this da basis of war

government or not

if u had 2 armed gangs fight each other u could tht a war

cus they fighting for something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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War is a condition of humanity.

No, it's a continuation of what our violent monkey forerunners did before us, along with flinging poop at each other as a mating rite. I wouldn't mind so much if we still flinged poop at each other, but taking lives away is unacceptable and folk who willingly do so are filth. I'd say that most folk would like to avoid violence, rather than be in it, and very many folk get by without being violent.

While we should seek to minimize it, it will happen

There has not been a justified war in the last 100 years, from the bloody communists in Russia and China, to bloody fascists in France, to ideologically-themed wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea. When a foe will purposely shoot at your borders, and plan to shoot everyone behind your borders, it would be more of a justification, but it's still not. The government must sign a peace deal, pride be damned, insuring that human life is kept, and not thrown away for the red barf we call government. In the First World War, Germany gave both Luxemburg and Belgium an ultimatum: to allow German military transit, or to be invaded militarily. Luxemburg was the much better government about this, but unluckily held less: they didn't care about national pride, and let the Germans go through, leaving the country fully free from damage in the war. Some Luxemburgers were drafted in the German army, but it was only late in the war that this happened, and porbably much lower than what it would be if Luxemburg took the violent and proud path, like Belgium. Belgium, with its national pride, chose to fight and so became one of the most wrecked sites in the war; only Poland and Serbia had more bloodloss. Later, Belgian partisan fighters, "proud" of their country, and defending it, made Germany ruin Belgium through harsh military rule to discourage partisanry. Mass civilian executions, all since a king wanted his "national pride".

we should be ready and willing to win. Only by being unbeatable can we deter others from attacking us.

If everyone thinks like this, everyone will lose. And the way to become unbeatable is to have no countries to fight. If Russia and Ukraine were one country, then there'd be no bloodshed over disputed regions, no politic strife, no second Holodmor in Ukraine from Russian sanctions. If Armenia and Azerbaijan joined together, there would be no loss of life over Artsakh, with each side disgustingly boasting and overestimating about how many they killed, but a peaceful union.

If everyone wants to be unbeatable, do you think anyone will be?

And it is better to be feared than loved.

It is better for a stable government, maybe. It's awful for the folk. If you speak out against ruthless, pointless, filthy, governmental bloodshed, you'll be a filthy Jew and sent to the poorest lands of your country, and killed in a pogrom if you complain twice. These Jews got their revenge in the Russian Revolution, when they shot the tsar and his family and their friends, and making a new, even more violent, dictator, Vladimir "Lenin" Ulyanov ("Hang no fewer than one hundred known nobles, rich men, and other bloodsuckers."). But his mission might have been the most justified, it was a bloody way, but perhaps the ends would make the means right. A taxless stewardship instead of government? Folk actually helping folk? Sounds great to me, and it might be worth a few lives killed. It's certainly better than whatever the bloodier First World War was trying to "achieve". Then Stalin went even more so into this. Polishphobia and fear of spies led to a killing or imprisoning all Poles that "where they shouldn't be", and later, just total paranoia. And he was unbeatable. The Germans came in the "rotten build" and they lost terribly. And militarisation only grew in his evil reign. Now, he is one of the most liked figures in Russia, for his stable reign, though noone would like to live in it. He stands for power in a windy time. Then you've British killing and torturing innocent folk as part of "collective punishment", and if you spoke against this, congratulations for your sacrifice, you're going to die. Then the CIA will send you to Poland to be tortured if you speak out against America, and try to kill Snowden, along with the efforts of the CIA and FBI.

And even then, folk who were feared, like Nicolae Ceaușescu, who tried to violently and towards the end, build a pathetic atmosphere of patriotism and kill all those who didn't, you know what happened to him? Shot up a week off Christmas, along with his wife, by those folk he tried to silence.

Don't be for authoritarianism unless you have lived somewhere like Ceaușescu Romania, or Mashriq. I talk about the CIA, but that's angelic and anarchic contrasted to these fellows.

Peace should be used only to prepare for war.

"If our country is worth dying for in times of war, then it must truly be worth living for in times of peace.". Anyhow, that's not what the imperialist countries are doing. America has a crappy air defence and core weapon system along with a past of false flag attacks, but still finds time to be near the Spartly islands, and make another refugee in Mashriq, or worse, to kill them. Russia's sure as hell got a crappy military, too, but still finds time to also be in Syria and Ukraine?

You are for militarism. Again, don't say this. America's bad about this, relative to countries today (3%), but it's far better than Eritrea (20%), where they shoot you if you try to leave and try to fund mafia and sometimes Islamist extremists in Ethiopia and where Ethiopia does the same to Eritrea, and they spend all this money they have on military forces, while roughly half of both countries' populations are literally starving to death. I left Eritrea, but while I was there, I definitely could not speak about this in the public life. What the police do there, and the secret police, it's truly awful. It's rated to have worse press freedom than Choson by Reporters Without Borders.

A bloody, inconclusive border war with Eritrea and Ethiopia, two countries in which most folk were already literally starving, goes unnoticed by America, but a war between Iraq and its strategic ally, Kuwait, means it's time to "peacekeep", or "shield Kuwait's international sovereignty".
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Donald Trump is for "total war", making it policy to target family members and friends of foes of America.