OK, so I just finished reading the excellent The Thirty Years War by C.V.Wedgewood.
Even before I got to the concluding chapter it was pretty obvious to me that this was a war of pointlessly unceasing suffering for the masses, a war that was started and continued almost entirely through the vanity, selfishness, pride and ambition of just a handful of men.
"The war solved no problems. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict."
Couldn't have said it better myself luv![]()
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