Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Ukraine Peace Negotiations" video.

  1. I think another key factor as to the punishment for declarations of war is the required mobilization of your own population and the stigma of the world Wars making nearly all war total wars in people's eyes. There's a lot of things which go into declarations of war on the home front as well, such as rationing, government actions to fund the war effort, industrial mobilization by forcing people into the factories, etc. Such things are now associated with the war effort and have made it difficult. These have mostly risen due to the large industrial wars and are better avoided if not declared at all. Another example of the difficulty is in the USA with congressional approval required for declarations of war and I think Russia needing to declare war to use conscripts outside of its borders where it initially didn't want to use them at all.
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