is this statement true?

Not at all. Wars often mark sharp transitions, but more often than not they are inevitable side effects of economic and social trends, and have predictable outcomes as well. There are certainly exceptions to that, but they are just that: exceptions.

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>>1081494
Wars come, wars go. The end result is that some monkeys get killed, the arbitrary lines drawn by packs of moneys change a bit and some people end up paying taxes to another group of head monkeys who might spend more of it on roads and bridges or parties and whores than their previous.

However a few technically minded people come together, build a new machine to (for example) better pump out mines and in a few decades the world is a different place.

>>1082026
remind me why most of the machines are built ?

oh yeah, to win war

>>1082050
Developing better means to pump water out of a mine does not win wars.

>>1082061
>most

>>1082050
Drainage pump?

>>1082072
Name them.

>>1082083
Don't be so lazy, just look at the 20th century.

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>>1082050
Most machines are built to do X shit better.

>Watch as he will say something edgy like "Yeah...to kill thousands in more effective ways...What God creates...man destroys."