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No, I got that, but it seems like another world war would lead to a lot of mutually assured destruction. A drastic loss of population, manpower, trust, infrastructure, credibility, morale, and natural resources is bad for business and geopolitics. Not only that, the odds that your side will actually become the hegemon is far from guaranteed, because there are so many classified and unpredictable elements that can't reasonably be accounted for.
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You are quite right there. Whenever we try to make geo-political assesments we got to remember we are mere civilians who know like a tenth of what the head honchos do. 

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