The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blaney

Political scientist geoffrey blaney says that the biggest cause of war is mutual optimism. Both sides have to believe that if they went to war they would win, then you see a fight. Firon wrote it out mathematically and says, you actually don't even have to like, delude yourself. You actually just have to keep escalating on both sides. But sometimes leaders are crazy enough so much that we can't back down.

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