Conflict (competition) is the way nature evolves. No competition, no evolution. So, the consequence of war is natural selection in the long term. So, society has progressed from family, to tribe, to chiefdom, to state, to nation. Each progression stage thrives by allowing competition without destructive war. When the societies loose the morals of nature competition and change, they collapse internally or are conquered.
The quest of humanity, therefore, has to be for a world order that enacts nature's rules for competition and change while eliminating the destruction of war.
John, I'm not convinced as war itself is specific and has specific forms. At this point, attempts to negate war have failed and we need to consider other ways to control conflict, but as with most matters it requires standing together when it appears.
In the present conflict, the world has failed to act together driven instead by the competition you mention.
The present situation raises future problems. The new expansion of Bric nations, all right wing and moving towards authoritarianism if not always there, is an ideological stand towards Western liberal political systems and points of view. It is an organised rejection of the West and what it stands for.
These are making an economic competitive thrust and attempting to overthrow real or imagined Western economic hegemony formed from 1944 and replace it with one as efficient. Russia and China accept corruption and this may become acceptable, if it does not already exist, in African countries, Brazil and India. The new world of wealth and politics conjoined and the decline of liberal democracies.
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