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Originally Posted by Victor
like when White Empire escalated in Vietnam, Algeria, India, many such cases.
not sure what the "white empire" is but the USA got destroyed by all practical purposes in Vietnam, and that in fact ended hostilities.
a much better outcome than many decades of lower level conflict right? at least Vietnam had a chance to rebuild and live in peace.
I didn't write it claiming that the side escalating is necessarily going to win.
the Algerian independence war was an all in conflict with full escalation, the only way to reach a conclusion.
independentists won that and only managed because they went completely all in escalating to the maximum possible extent they could.
India didn't have the same conflict as the British accepted to leave.
not sure what your point is, there are some cases where one of the two sides gives up on it's claims, in all others it's only with escalation up to total war that you end a conflict