Part 1

What is really bad is not that wars start according to one scenario, but usually proceed according to a completely different one, but that wars often lead to the death of those regimes and states whose leaders initiated these wars. Moreover, the more carefully the initiators plan their wars, the more successfully the wars start for them, the more terrible the consequences are for those who conceived them.

Of course, this is not true for all wars. It is typical for wars not just between states, but between states-civilizations, and the main reasons for such tragedies are due to the unwillingness of those who initiated these wars to take into account civilizational factors.

The initiators of wars between civilizations are distinguished by a sense of superiority and an inability to understand the peculiarities and uniqueness of another civilization.
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