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According to Clausewitz, there are three fundamental factors that drive war:
- Primordial violence, hatred and a natural hostility or opposition towards something.
- Having the opportunity and possibility to act out on it.
- Politics being the rational attempt at creating some sort of diplomatic, non-violent, argumentative solution for a problem, is rendered futile by the very irrational nature of war. Therefore having war is a policy reinforces the irrationality of the policy itself, by preventing it from becoming rational once more.