I think most people think of war as violence that beats or destroys a country, but this definition is much more accurate.
War is extreme politics, and to win you have get the other side to fundamentally change.
That’s what Canada is fighting against with the US right now with the trade war.
Jamieson Roberts
To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.
See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery."
snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
