| No seriously....wasn't trying to be disengenous...just was curious...not siding with the French would have alienated a key element and buffer zone in conjunction with West Germany in the new Cold War that developed...
You're right..diplomacy did end that particular crisis..unfortunately over 15 conflicts between the proxy countries that fought the Cold War were initiated.
Starboy...I'm saying that we are locked into a cycle yes..as to whether it is the preferred condition...life is constantly changing circumstances all fighting for supremacy...nature iteself wars with itself....Modern man is not to far removed from that Stone-age hunter/gatherer...a thin veneer covers it..
Diplomacy has cause some momentous changes, but on the whole....it has been the use of Force which changed the most situations...look at the Cold War....we basically broke the USSR monetarily by continually upping the arms race. |