as stupid as it is, Alcohol has more history solving problems than most forms of diplomacy.
Alcohol makes you not care. it makes you say and do stuff with loose and comfident hands what you would be shaking without. it makes anything wrong feel right, every problem a solution, every imperfection a detail. a few millenias ago, the first tribes sat down and agreed to work the fields together instead of killing eachother for game, drinking wine in the stomach of animals. it made the greeks write poems. it made the romans build cities, it made the kings build empires, the Spanish cross the oceans and the brittish invent rock and roll.
alcohol is the breast milk of civilization.