

The British did ok after the second Boer War.
The empire of Japan did fairly well after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
The empire of Japan also did great after WW1 come to think of it.
The states did enjoy the Spanish–American war result.
Really kinda requires a strange mind or a willfully ignorant one to not recognize that wars often have winners and that is a reason they keep happening.











Good thing the mod log exists, because today I learned that it is antisemitic to call out the actions of a nation (israel in this case). I mean if it was not for these very reasonable actions by mods I might have thought that the state of israel is not the sum of all Jews. Whew that was almost too close to a nuanced view on the modern geopolitical situation.
Really saved us all from thinking here.