There are dozens of other possibilities than simply war till total exhaustion of both sides. Wars never end! The article posted by that idiot Jewish-English woman went back to blame the pre Cromwell era. Repercussions (good or bad) are not only short term; they last for eons. All this grab for nuclear weapons, this rush to kill at greater numbers and faster, has come out of your beloved atom bomb! What a thing to hold up as a symbol of virtue! The ugly thing is, that your lack of imagination, your lack of ability to think, or even to want to think, deeply enough, long enough until you can come up to a peaceful solution, instead of: "You can't talk with animals," puts us all -the whole planet- in extreme danger. You have the view that you can win against the rest of the planet. You won't even know what happened when you find yourself engulfed with flames.
