I dunno man seems like wars are super easy when the objective is to win and not launder a trillion dollars to your friends in the DC-VA-MD area for decades
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
New Yorker called it “a brilliant study of war.”
John Keegan said it was “one of the half dozen most important books about the war.”
Christopher Hitchens wrote an essay defending it.
Then pressure groups succeeded in all but banning it, and you’ll get in trouble for citing it.
I want RFK Jr’s first official act to be to ban pharmaceutical advertisements from tv. Then, big pharma won’t be able to sponsor news networks to push their poisons.