Discussions, post-mortems, analysis, inflated egos, and all that jazz.

In short, your answer is "I don't know." I'll add a gamer's perspective to the situation. When players on this forum start discussing balance, the best they can come up with (if I'm not mistaken) is the principle that there should be some kind of counter for everything, with some probability, but at least a chance of a counter. Now, armed with at least this approach, let's return to our reality. I'm talking about the fact that there are grounds to suspect that the balance between strength and intelligence has already shifted in favor of strength. And what leads me to this thought is the ambiguity of the answer as to how to counter nuclear weapons in the hands of a psychopath (or psychopaths) obsessed with power. There is a vague suspicion that this is an overpowered element. The minor military conflicts that Heroin wrote about are a consequence of a more total overpowered element that underlies all of this and has already tipped the global balance. Or, there is the point of view that we, as thinking beings, are currently practicing some unknown abilities of self-control and control over others, abilities to negotiate, communicate, and so on, under the threat of extinction. Which, in other words, means that the balance has already shifted, and our task now is to restore it by urgently training our minds.