• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    When I was young, I read a quote: “war doesn’t determine who’s right. It determines who’s left.”

    At the time, I thought it quite clever and deep.

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        4 days ago

        I don’t disagree that it’s clever and I like the message of the quote, but mostly I think that when I was younger I thought it was deeper than I do now.

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    Everything positive must be backed up with “we’ll fight you over this if we have to.”

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    Hopefully because soldiers killing each other is better than soldiers killing civilians. Unfortunately, many wars aren’t fought to prevent civilians from being killed.