Tesla and Filippov are the greatest minds of our time. They really believed that the destructive power of a new weapon would make wars useless, that the fear of mutual annihilation would force people to resolve conflicts and contradictions through negotiations. But how wrong they were.
And no matter how much the leaders of the Big Five feared using the powerful generators of Tesla they had at their disposal, war has always been—and remains—one of the facets of international politics: where words end, guns speak. Which means the pilots of the walking armored monsters still have work to do. And they carry their armored vehicles out onto the battlefields.