I’ve recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.

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You still need the permanent war though

yea but that’s like air

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Its cheaper than two continents of gold and silver but its not “like air”. Permanent war. Always on the home front, not the frontier. Western Europe ground on for like a millennia without any empire establishing itself.

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same with every other place save China (but still sometimes even China)

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