War is coming, and we are too complacent to stop it - Washington Examiner

War is coming, and we are too complacent to stop it - Washington Examiner

Countries do not slide into war. They collapse into it suddenly, unexpectedly, and incredulously. “I had grown up in the optimistic belief that major wars were a thing of the past,” the philosopher Bertrand Russell recalled of the 1914 catastrophe. “When I heard the news of the war, I felt as if a curtain had been torn aside and the world revealed itself as a dark and terrible place.” Most of his contemporaries felt the same way. “One hears the …