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Opinion: What happened to promise of no more wars?

We've forgotten an important lesson learned in the Second World War about the causes of war - and how to keep them from happening

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‘When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.’

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Eighty years ago, we set out to drain the........

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