re: British Army admits Russia could destroy their only remaining fighting unit...

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Maybe. With globalization there is only one economic system now. State actors won't go to war because Wal-Mart won't let them.

That is somewhat facetious of course but there is some truth to it now.

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Many thought the same thing a century ago in the days before WWI. There was no way there could be a general European War because all the major powers were so economically tied together. Plus there had not been a large "general" European war since the days of Napoleon 100 years before. Yeah there had been small conflicts like the Crimea and the Franco-Prussian War. But nothing truest significant. Those large scale multi-power wars were now impossible.

That line of thinking, which at the time was the prevailing view of most experts, was proven wrong in the summer of 1914.