"What pretension, everlasting peace!" as if to indignantly exclaim that humans seek an everlasting peace when it goes against both our nature and nature to begin with.
For an everlasting peace to exist, everything in the world would have to cease.
It's like a megalomaniacal comic book villain. To attain everlasting peace, they decide to destroy the world.
I really feel like it should say:
"What pretension, everlasting peace!" as if to indignantly exclaim that humans seek an everlasting peace when it goes against both our nature and nature to begin with.
For an everlasting peace to exist, everything in the world would have to cease.
It's like a megalomaniacal comic book villain. To attain everlasting peace, they decide to destroy the world.