“Those deterrents – the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors – which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People.”

“Those deterrents – the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors – which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman