Dumb Diplomacy: I think I may have discovered the solution.

[AussieGiant]

I don't agree. There is always a reason for going to war, its just that in some cases 'history', and even the people involved don't have access to that truth.

There certainly is always a reason to go to war. The point is those reasons can be wide, varied and range from explainable to the average person to totally inexplicable to the average person.

If you refute this Didz, then it's going to be a long, detailed and painful experience.

And as I mentioned in my post. A simple pop explanation by CA would give you your truth. I'm pretty certain that if the pop up explanation was that the Kings Bishop or astrologer said it was an opportunistic time to declare war, you'd be less than satisfied.

Yet there are numerous examples of this as a reason for nations declaring war on each other.

Again I'll say this. Many posters here seem to think that "their" version of what is correct and incorrect should be therefore how the game behaves.

International politics and by extension war as an aspect of politics is so very far from predictable.

Why? Because you are talking about humans and their interactions with each other. There should always be a degree of uncertainty, because that is what humans have in common with each other.