And yet, can you name one instance where any of those things happened? I can help you with that. Germany after WWI and its reparations for France. What did that accomplish? The German people paid the price for political decisions on which it had no say whatsoever, it was impoverished and humiliated and played right into the hands of a demagogue who caused an even greater bloodshed across Europe and the world. My country (Greece) was never given reparations for the incredible damage it suffered during WW2. We were just given the Marshall plan and told to be content with that. And the reason for that is simple: Greece is a small country and reparations could be made by Germany once its economy was back on track. But if we got them, then so should other countries, especially the USSR which suffered immensely. And ten Germanies wouldn't have been able to pay for that. Or for the Holocaust. Or for Poland, France and Yugoslavia.

The point is that there is a huge distance between what is morally fair in international politics, what actually happens and what is realistically possible. And that's why war should be avoided altogether. There can never be justice after it.