Of course it was amusing to demolish those alliances but it was not done for our amusement. I don't plan on fueling this laughable rhetoric about how we've somehow wronged x and y though, so whatever. You can find the CBs in the respective declarations of war and anything else you're not down with is nothing more than a direct result of your (not yours personally but rather of our adversaries) incompetence. We're all playing the same political game here and the 2008 holier than charade isn't fooling anyone nowadays. But I'm sure you know that!
As for the usefulness of this war, I find it quite illuminating if only because we've seen just what the opposition is capable of mustering when our apathy allows them to. The real downside is the likes of Mogar, Rotavele and that Riddle guy going berserk for a few days around here with some pretty horrid posting but our brains are still in one piece, thankfully.