> Finally we tried economic cooperation. Make everyone rich and interdependent, and they won't want to go war.
Economic cooperation only makes a country rich if it is not too corrupted internally. When a country is governed by thieves, all wealth ends up in their pockets, and the average citizen remains poor.
Interdependence does not mean dependence on everyone. A big country can keep doing business with other big countries, while it attacks its smaller neighbors who only provide a negligible fraction of the trade.
Economic cooperation only makes a country rich if it is not too corrupted internally. When a country is governed by thieves, all wealth ends up in their pockets, and the average citizen remains poor.
Interdependence does not mean dependence on everyone. A big country can keep doing business with other big countries, while it attacks its smaller neighbors who only provide a negligible fraction of the trade.