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And that conflicts between ethnic groups either result in displacement or replacement, except when the stronger party are too few to do either and they themselves get absorbed by the conquered.

Yes, because the 'Good War' is the foundational creation myth of the 20th Century's Religion of Progress! A replacement for the War in Heaven and Michael casting down Satan.

At least until declining IQs reach the point that deteriorating and unrepairable warhead and launch vehicle stockpiles can no longer maintain real deterrence.

They believe that nuclear weapons have brought us back to the time of cabinet wars prosecuted with limited means for limited ends, largely fought by deniable proxy forces.

Nice people who pretend holiness. Church ladies and bien pensants.

The barracks is not a place for plaster Saints.

Force power only matters to the oligarchs as a force multiplier to money power.

Mercenaries stay loyal to the paychest. Always has been and always will be.

LOL, no. No enlisted lads in the army aside from a few weirdos has read any Solzhenitsyn. In garrison they're entirely too preoccupied with drinking and whoring and spending their pay on boondoggles; and deployed, they're too stressed for heavy reading. I managed Polybius in Iraq in 2002, but...