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Originally Posted by zraver
No nation can sustain 12 months of high intensity warfare with modern arms prices. Modern superpowers battle for influence and wage war with soft power and by proxy.
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I recall hearing that same argument by pre-World War I thinkers. They were under the impression that because of the great volume of trade that occured between nations and the expense of contemporary weapons and munitions, any war couldn't help but be short.
The problem isn't that the US (or China, or the EU) couldn't afford it... the problem is that once it became clear that one side was losing, the nuclear element will introduced to the picture by the loser (either as a negotiation tool or a limited/all out weapon) and shorten the war one way or another.