• TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net
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    1 year ago

    it’s the ability to send millions of men to die

    Isn’t that the whole point of war? See which side ran out of men/women faster.

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      1 year ago

      that’s exactly how the Chinese see it, yeah… in the West we study von Clausewitz, who said that military power is an extension of politics… von Clausewitz was part of a time in the West called The Enlightenment… the Chinese have yet to participate in it… they’re still a few hundred years behind mentally…