That's generally how war works. Most of the time they're fought over subjective issues that don't have a clear answer - did Poland really belong to the Polish? I can't even think of an example of a war that stemmed from a testable fact that can be 'right.'
It's not the most true statement, because very few wars result in the complete elimination of one side. I mean, the allies won WWII but Germans, and more specifically Nazis, are still around today.
"Stop using my name like a God damn Mastercard spoof! God frickin damn it, you are not clever if you put my name in front of stupid crap you know what I'm sick of this I'm gonna kick your ass!"
It's usually used to discredit any argument for violence to solve a problem.
It has a correlated saying though: "History is written by the victors." Since whoever is left is they ones who will be able to write the history, they will, for all intents and purposes, be right.
Though of course, both sayings are somewhat inaccurate. So yeah, not that useful either way.
So you're gonna refer to an obscure civil war that we know nothing about and use it as an argument in this discussion without telling us anything about what it was about? Very well.
Well, most of the time, but having recently written an article on the Suez crisis I'd hesistate to say that wars are always won by the stronger side. Often, in the modern day, attempts by countries to strong-arm others end up being beaten down by moral condemnation and the threat of force - or at least non-intervention, as between Taiwan and China (where both exist, depending on which side you're on) - meaning that being 'right' helps considerably
So you're gonna refer to an obscure civil war that we know nothing about and use it as an argument in this discussion without telling us anything about what it was about? Very well.
Well, you should have asked then.
In the late 17th century, the reigning O'Neil, Turlough Luineach was getting very old and alchoholic (he famously caused a succession crisis when he was pronounced dead after a drinking session, only to rise a day later, presumably with a wicked hangover).
The principal combatants were Turlough, Hugh O'Neil, the Earl of Tyrone, and the MacShane brothers. Turlough's principal strength was that he was already the O'Neil, the MacShane brothers as their name implies controlled the access to mercenaries from Scotland, while Hugh O'Neil had the central location and the implied support of the O'Donnels. He won it after the O'Donnels entered the conflict after Hugh Roe O'Neil escaped his wine induced captivity to claim rulership of Tyrconnel.
The conflict completely altered the balance of power in Ireland.
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