Europe spent the last few decades focussing on being a soft power, yet that did nothing to stop Russia, wars in the middle east or the ongoing migrant crisis.
It stopped Russia and other conflicts for the last decades... It's still preserving peace in Europe.
But there is no perfect solution. There always will be a maniac doing stupid shit because their personal benefit is more valuable for them than the greater good of everyone else. We are now in such a phase again, where all kind of maniacs have become loose, wasting societies for fun and giggles... We will have what we will make of it.
