Since the dawn of time wars have been fought for a variety of reasons.

Some rational, some irrational, some ridiculous, some absurd, some reasonable, some understandable.

To say otherwise is to ignore history to such an extent as to be laughable.

Those who want total predictability should not look for satisfaction in this game as I'm sure CA are more than aware of the historical fact mentioned above.

While some greater level of understanding for the causes of DOW would be nice I don't want or expect them to be totally explainable.

I find so many of the discussions here to be about people wanting the game to behave the way they want it to behave.

Certainty is very comforting, because it's very easy to predict, and therefore very easy to manage and finally very easy to beat.

With a simple pop up explanation this random event, which may seem absurd, could be explained, and while the player may not like it, the explanation has been given.

So without trying to confuse people too much in one post, it does however seem ridiculous that France would declare war on Spain.

Then again the Sun King may have just gotten out of bed on the wrong side that day.