War is the Leveler of Social Ideas.?

Question

Would you assent a truism or truth of sorts that war is the ultimate expression of social discourse in practise.

Take lebens raum, American civil war or any current conflicts at almost any given time. Territorial gains are the monetary equivalent of the majority vote; economics, diplomacy and compromise are merely pale expressions.

Is there another comparison of equal strength or alternative expression ?

Answer 1

Viet Nam fits this? Despite superior resources etc the Americans (and French prior to this) were whupped by chinks with sticks assuming the moral high ground

Answer 2

I think what you are saying (and I am probably somewhat mistaken, as I am just a lowly high school student and you seem to be some kind of British college professor) is that when the people become angry at the direction society is heading, they are inclined to start a war. This seems pretty true. The "President" of America wasn't happy that we got attacked on his watch, and so decided to invade a couple 3rd world nations nobody cared about to make himself feel better (and his constituents too). The Civil War was started by a bunch of angry Southerners fed up with the North for being so controlling and generally cramping their style of living (that being an agrarian one as opposed to the North's industrialism, as well as different views of slavery). Hitler was able to mobilize Germany because things were not good after WWI, and the American Revolution was started because the colonists were rather mad over all the taxes and acts England was passing against us (as well as the Coercive Acts, which were retaliatory in nature and cruel).

P.S. Where did you learn all of these fancy geopolitical concepts (as well as your grasp of Latin)

Answer 3

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