I don’t think we disagree on a great deal, except in terms of the interpretation, and how much hope is left.

Personally I think people are cottoning onto the fact that the nuclear sabre-rattling is empty terrorism, and I think that just as war in the 2010s isn’t war in the 20s, war in the 20s isn’t going to be war in the 30s. We might be near a point at which production rather than manpower is the sole decisive factor in a conflict. That said I’m a Protomen fan, and I do feel that the willingness to stand up to your oppressors with your own skin in the game - and never any machine by proxy - will always be the final deciding factor. But I do see the way war is changing.

The main thing people forget in situations like this is that nothing is vouchsafed to us, no matter how much we know about history, no matter how well we can apply its lessons. The future is forever unwritten, and there is more potential in the infinite present than can be known. We only diminish it with despair.