":::I regret that I couldn't disagree more with your implication that wars start out of the blue. That YOU cannot discern a chain-of-events leading to them is interesting but inconclusive, and should not prevent any other editor from offering detail to the contrary. That you don't ""think"" that the record would be distorted by focussing just on the war and not also providing the precursor events is obviously a POV. I ""think"" otherwise but I am furthermore prepared (and fully intend to) to substantiate my ""think"" by providing full detail in support of my view and to see data offered to the contrary. Selective memory or cherry-picking are not one of my favourite routes to a full historical appreciation - and I hope that I am correct in presuming that that is the objective of such a Wiki article, and not a one-sided surgical excision of anything that does not promote a favoured result.  

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