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Point is, an incident any two sane heads of state would quietly defuse is treated as a [[Rant-Inducing Slight]] in order to start the war.
A technical term for this is the Latin term ''[[casus belli|Casus Belli]]'', or case for war.
Since [[wikipedia:War of aggression|wars of aggression]] have technically been banned, you'll find that these are a lot more common today than they were previously, since both sides are at pains to show that the other side started it. As a result, the history of many a 20th-century war reads like a really, really dark [[Idiot Plot|Idiot]] [[Fawlty Towers Plot]].
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