War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.