Wars don’t only change our habits and biographies, our everyday existence and those of the ones directly involved in fights; wars also change political, social, and economical realities beyond the boundaries of the strict events (however prolonged) they are. We might say, following this narrative, that wars are changes-in-continuity. Yet, despite the aforementioned changes, war’s real or objective specifics, don’t exhaust its influence.
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