Grishka, I am disappointed that you can not remember the quotes I have provided supporting the first view.

Sorry, I should have written: among the links you posted today. Earlier on, you did mention some nationalists. Nationalists are nationalists (- I mentioned one criterion for identifying them thus -), whatever their expertise on, say, "military history". It may well be that this subject is most attractive for people with ideological views - so it was for communists, BTW.

I know that you are immune to parables, but other readers may imagine someone writing "The White Man had no option but to fight the Negro, given that Emperor Bokassa publicly threatened to dominate the world." What would be the reaction?

You also failed to react on my offers to discuss each of the many aspects of your theses individually. Some of these are undisputed, others are irrelevant, the most crucial ones contain their ideological load in their very formulations, as I amply pointed out.

I would not bother to post to this thread at all were it not for the new rise of nationalism and bellicisme in many western countries. It is in fact about possible future wars, not about past ones.