The way the US got Japan to stop fighting was to drop atomic bombs to coerce the Japanese leadership to concede a defeat and the Japanese leadership had a strong enough authority to get most Japanese troops to stop fighting.
Navi Germany had an ideology that was very much about respecting power. The whole authority of the Nazi government was based on it being perceived as strong. After both World Wars Germany tried to copy US culture to copy the traits of the winner.
The communist states didn’t fall to invading armies in a bloody war that tried to govern those states afterwards.
See the UDT reasons for not giving in to blackmail.
The discussion about blackmail is usually not about starting Wars with no calculation about the cost of those wars.
The way the US got Japan to stop fighting was to drop atomic bombs to coerce the Japanese leadership to concede a defeat and the Japanese leadership had a strong enough authority to get most Japanese troops to stop fighting.
Navi Germany had an ideology that was very much about respecting power. The whole authority of the Nazi government was based on it being perceived as strong. After both World Wars Germany tried to copy US culture to copy the traits of the winner.
The communist states didn’t fall to invading armies in a bloody war that tried to govern those states afterwards.
The discussion about blackmail is usually not about starting Wars with no calculation about the cost of those wars.
Nevertheless, the ones with preexisting ethnic tensions, i.e., Yugoslavia and parts of Russia, degenerated into ethnic warfare.