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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really. Even from an almost sociopathic perspective, the economic loss of sending a chunk of your population off to war instead of doing something more productive at home can kill the whole calculus. Sun Tzu had a whole bit on how expensive it is just to march an army around, as if he were trying to get nobels to understand that maybe you just fucking shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

He was, that's what half of the aphorisms are saying.

"Don't just do things think, please, I'm begging you."