Isn’t it said that everyone is right from their side?

It is just a matter of which direction the game should take.

The best example of an Idiot war I can think of was when Argentina attacked and took the Falklands.

Their government was very unpopular and they took a gamble to shore it up.

They managed to occupy the islands, though. They didn’t sit in their capital and look across at the enemy. They didn’t send a raiding part of one cannon to Surry. They didn’t blockade Bristol.

They wanted the islands and they took them, betting that they were too unimportant to waste lives over.

We know how it turned out and the Argentines had a change of government afterwards. They didn’t continue a hopeless war until Argentina was a British possession.

Can you see some of the differences to this and the game?