As "The War to End All Wars" or "The Great War" it's hard for us to understand today how profoundly World War I affected the people of Europe at the time. It was such an unprecedented, total catastrophe that they were scared, shocked, and determined never to let it happen again. They believed permanent peace was possible, which is what this pact was all about.
The problem is, renouncing peace as a foreign policy is great, and a nice idea...until you have to go to war, which is sometimes inevitable.
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