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Bob Noel
Anther word for "diplomacy" is business negotiation. Let's cut the chase and call it what it really is. It's all about trading good and services. Nothing more and making it about anything else is a fairy tale.
Therefore in your scenario, if the other side rejects the proposal, we go in and TAKE what we want. That's how we got in this mess in the first place.
No, Jack. I'll take door #B - the door that leads to peace. If you don't want to trade with me, then I take my ball and go home. I'll offer my good/ services to someone else who WANTS them.
Failed trade is always the backstory to war. And people die over it. And that death is permanent....FOREVER.
your fallacy is assuming that nobody fights defensively.