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Lots of words to be weirdly wrong about things.

There certainly were a lot of minor "elite" wars in Europe where power shifted back and forth across the aristocracy with no real difference to daily life. WW2 was not one of them. Nor, historically, was the Thirty Years War.

OP may be confused by the American colonial wars since Korea. Korea is the last one where you can see the difference in outcomes for the population.



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