Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .
External pressure seems to produce internal unity.
The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.