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I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker denies that they would provoke wars abroad merely to escape problems at home, calling such a scheme frivolous. What they meant, they insist, were conflicts that cannot be avoided even though nobody seeks them. It is a careful clarification separating opportunistic aggression from unwanted necessity.
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