Thinking about the "benefits" a war might bring, even Perfikot was considering whether it was really necessary to start a war as a cover for the disaster response plan.
But in the end, she abandoned that idea, not for any particular reason, but because she knew how much a large-scale war could cost in the industrial era.
In the original world, the Seven Years' War, acclaimed as the true First World War, engulfed Europe, America, and Africa in battles between the Anglo-Prussian Alliance and the Franco-Austrian Alliance, lasting a full seven years.
The war resulted in approximately 900,000 to 1,400,000 deaths, indirectly prompting the independence of the thirteen North American colonies and the outbreak of the French Revolution.
However, for several of the main participating countries, it was far from debilitating. Russia even saw the rise of Empress Catherine the Great, whose remarkable talents led to a modernization attempt in the aging Tsarist Russia.
