War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
Britain can only spend what it can afford.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.