The most meaningless conflict

[The Wizard]

Not as desatrous as the 30year war but still meaningless. The 1969 soccer war between Honduras and El Salvador. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_War

Yes, I lived there from '98 to 2000 and I must say it's a deep-running memory.

BP, the Great War was fought out just as much over power, chauvinism and hatred between nations just as much as it was fought out over who had alliances with who. It was a conflict which had been waiting to happen ever since the 1870s.

Another nice and pointless war was the civil war at the death of Andronicus III in the Byzantine Empire, from 1341 to 1347. It was obvious John Cantacuzenus did not want to claim the throne for himself, but political and personal enemies plotted and intrigued against him so that he was forced to take the throne to protect his position and the Empire itself. Empress Anne, one of the great bitches of history as I like to say, pawned the imperial crown jewels to the Venetians for a loan (a loan, goddammit!) of 30000 ducats! To top it all off, it never arrived! And all that while the Byzantines' enemies were closing in around them, most notably amongst them Stefan Dushan, King of Serbia, who expanded his empire while playing the different Byzantine factions off against each other.

The war greatly weakened the position of the empire, which had been strengthened under Andronicus III, lost the Byzantines their crown jewels, and set the stage for the Ottoman invasion of the 1360s and onwards. Nothing was achieved, for John V Palaeologus remained co-Emperor and John VI Cantacuzenus his regent en effet.



~Wiz