• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    The ancient rule that men love war and women love warriors so that after each war an abundance of children easily exceeded war losses, while damaged cities were rebuilt and expanded in dynamic post-war reconstructions, seems to have been forgotten

    What is this supposed to mean? War is OK because after it people can rebuild and reproduce?

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      The ancient rule that men love war

      If only there were living survivors of the last great war in Europe who we can ask about whether they still love war.

      Oh well, better send the young men out to die.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      It's like when you prune some branches off a tree and it grows back stronger and prettier but only with human beings instead of branches.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      I looked at the author's profile and wow, makes a lot more sense now how he'd arrive at such a twisted statement:

      His most recent book is The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

      • D61 [any]
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        8 months ago

        His most recent book is The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

        ... or, "How not to run a prison colony."

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      "War makes me horny and maybe if enough normal guys die and I kill enough people I can get a gf"