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Originally Posted by Slappy
It's not clear to me that there was any reason for the war to have started in canon. Sino-soviet front was a border squabble that got out of hand and the whole german reunification thing set off by a bunch of generals without enough to do.
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One might view the start of the Twilight War in much the same light as the start of WW1. The powder keg was there, just waiting to be lit by some stray spark. In much the same way that defensive technology and tactics had established dominance over offensive technology and tactics in 1914, both the Soviets in China and the Germans in Germany found that they were unable to bring their respective wars to a satisfactory conclusion with offensive action. Each offensive failure opened up opportunities for other powers with scores (real or imagined) to settle.
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