Can you lower World Tension through war?

[Soyaman]

Hey! Quick question, is it possible to lower world tension through war?
WOW
Okay, put your pitchforks down. Hear me out.

So, in the WWW stream it was shown that releasing nations decrease world tension and that settling for white peace does too.
I'd assume declaring the war to begin with increases tension but say if you're the USSR and you wish to liberate Manchuria and Korea from Japan. Ignoring the possible immense war costs, is it possible to legitimately make an effort to keep tension down for the democrats?

Thank you

 

[77Hawk77]

it would be nice if liberating countries lowered tension.

 

[Mannstien]

it would be nice if liberating countries lowered tension.

As long as it's not Daniels form of liberation , you know I mean once the whole big bang kicks off what's the point? Even if you start and end a quick war as a minor by the time that's done the majors are gonna start kicking off their events though I could see possibly a use for it in A-Historical mode maybe hmm....need to think about it.

 

[henzington]

I bet white peace lowers tension but not as much as the increase from making the claim.

 

[Daelyn75]

As long as it's not Daniels form of liberation , you know I mean once the whole big bang kicks off what's the point? Even if you start and end a quick war as a minor by the time that's done the majors are gonna start kicking off their events though I could see possibly a use for it in A-Historical mode maybe hmm....need to think about it.

If not Daniels, then the Blorgs form of liberation. The friendship kind!

 

[zyphial]

I don't think enough data has been released about world tension for a solid answer but I think any open hostilities, even for ostensibly "noble" causes would have raised world tension historically. Remember, Tension takes two to tango, and the attitudes of both sides matter. In the given example, Germany and anyone in the anti-comintern would be livid, their rhetoric would be more bellicose, public opinion would favor war and international relations would suffer as a consequence. Also, consider balance of power, which was an outdated but still very much alive concept and also that unless you're spreading "my" ideology, I'm going to be quite upset that you've "liberated" a country, no matter the means.

I think a future DLC should include a crisis system like Victoria, where world powers can come together and divvy up unfortunate minors ala the Munich conference and others, with certain results lowering world tensions and other results raising it, but I don't think war itself should lower more than it raises.

democrats

Believe it or not, this is actually a pejorative term for members of the Democratic Party coined intentionally on the rather amusing idea that "democrat" sounds like "rat" and would negatively hurt their votes. It entered the common lexicon and the original intention failed (lol), but it actually has nothing to do with states that are democracies.

 

[Denkt]

World tension is ment to go up not down, you can at best slow down the growth to 100% but that is bascially it.

 

[kalauer]

It is very likely that even the most graceful peace still increases WT when seen everything (Claim, DoW) together. Anyhow, the time needed to do this would probably be enough for other nations to raise WT.

And as soon as two factions are at war, WT is essentially irrelevant. It will all be going down from that Point (if not earlier).