No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. . .

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.