China’s Warring States Period Ended in 221 BC, Europe’s Ended in 1945- or Has It

I haven’t  much opportunity to write on the topic comparing China’s warring states period from the 5th to the 3rd centuries BC with that of Europe that continued from prehistory unto 1945. However I thought I would mention it in a placeholder until the future when lions and lambs will peacefully rest together and I will have lots of time for writing and editing.

Europe’s warring states period hasn’t totally ended- they are still having their own post-period Risorgimento or reorganisation still settling in. Their first order of business was to expand N.A.T.O. and induct other states- even Canada in North America, into the European Union. The annexation of Ukraine from a reemergent Russia liberated from the Soviet Union was the first overt act of condign power and force de majeure while the EU is continuing to consolidate and become a super-power.

Europe did not peacefully conclude it’s warring states period. That was brought by the development of Russia and the U.S.A. as the two extra-European allies who defeated the last continental threat vector together and subsequently developed nuclear weapons. Peace was imposed on Europe by outsiders. Europeans had no internal political balance that ended their own warring states period.

It is indeed a very dangerous historical circumstance. Blind political power ascension armed with propaganda reinforcement from myriad partisans and supremist woke political ideology is virtually an adolescent assertion of identity. The United States will be fortunate if they are not dragged into World War Three with the atheist entity seeking to have its way with Russia.

Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War in the 5th century BCE during the warring states period. Clauzewitz wrote ‘On War’ circa 1816-30′. Europe’s warring states period lasted for about the same length of time after a scholar analyzed the method. In China the states themselves reached a conclusion and balance. In Europe that never occurred; the striving internally was repressed by outsiders choosing a side. Internalizing the war psychologically may be a cause for the rabidity of European support for the Ukraine conflict with Russia.