Nobody starts a war just because they want to kill someone; that kind of psychosis can happen in individuals, but not an entire nation, since hundreds or thousands or millions of people like that can't stop killing each other long enough to form a civilization. Practically every war in history owes to one of two causes: Nation A had some resources, usually land, which Nation B wanted, or Nation A had an ideology that it thought was so awesome that everyone who was anyone would agree it was the only way to believe, and thus felt anyone who didn't agree to it was a dangerous maniac to be killed in the name of the believers' long-term safety and comfort.
The first problem could be solved easily enough by providing limitless resources so every nation had everything it could possibly need, but the latter is trickier; convincing people not to be paranoid about the chance that your neighbors will turn on you 5000 years from now because you didn't force them to like you today will take a stupendous act of defiance against the human capacity for illogic.
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