Absurd Wars

To my understanding, the incredibly long and terrible war between Lilliput and Blefuscu started because a Lilliputan king cut his finger when he opened an egg in a certain way, and Blefuscans say that the correct way to open an egg is the way in which the king of Lilliput cut himself. If I indeed understood correctly, this is most likely one of the most ridiculous wars I have ever heard of. It reminds me of world war one, which was caused only by nationalism, which can also be called rivalry between countries. The incident that ignited the tension that spread across Europe in the 1910's was very stupid, just like the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu. The war started between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, because an importan Austria-Hungarian was murdered in Sarajevo. That didn't even have any relationship with the Serbian government, but the tension was so big that this was enough. Just like the Lilliputan king's accident with the egg, it was absurd, and absurdity is one of satire's elements, which begins to show us how Gulliver's Travels can be a satirical novel. I'm not sure what the author's mocking with this. Probably he's just mocking human wars, because I'm sure there were stupid wars before world war one, at the time when Gulliver's Travels was written, since war itself is stupid.