WORLD IS TIRED OF WAR...LOCK UPTHE WAR MONGERING PSYCHOPATHS
Quoting: MWELLK 18996828 Won't make a lick of difference.
You behead one snake and a new one rises to take it's place.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7702124 Exactly. The war machine is a corporation. It purposely has a single goal. just like a fiscal corporation. maximize benefit for itself, at any cost. See scandals of generals who could full well afford hookers, but tapped women on the payroll.
This is not a platitude or observation. It is a legal fact.
As the OP stated, the only thing that stops war is
war weariness. Not another army. Not cease fires. Not elder statesmen. Not technological advancement (always a big excuse for the war machine). Even exhausting the resources/ideals purportedly contested does not stop war.
The US is the only country that can sustain total permanent war on terra. The spelling/pronunciation was not incorrect. It is permanent war on earth brought in by the neo-cons of BOTH US political parties.
The oldsters will remember back in 2002, and 2006 when the US government sent out $600 checks to every man woman and child. They told us the economy was terrible. I am not very smart, but I think the economy is about 100 times worse, but no checks.

Hrmmm, could those checks have been a war weariness mitigating bribe from bribe from SATAN?
Yes, the US tax code is the anti-christ. not because it is a tax. not because it is unfair. It enables permanent violence. it destroys free will. it can not be understood by a human, it itself is not a human.
Everything that Christ was not. (ANTI)