Arendt also stated:”The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”

Hannah Arendt already warned us:”Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

Richard Drew Marcantonio gives some useful evidence-based policy advise: Partial peace agreements, which includes ceasefires, have an 85% rate of conflict relapse. Comprehensive peace agreements have a 14% rate of conflict relapse.