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> about something real vs die over bullshit While the military-industrial complex is a thing, most armed conflict can be abstracted as resource exploitation or
by nikatwork 10y ago
> about something real vs die over bullshit
While the military-industrial complex is a thing, most armed conflict can be abstracted as resource exploitation or contention expressed as territorialism. Religion and ideology is just a convenient cassus belli.
As the Lesser Bonapartes podcast puts it, "The in-group always has a problem with... those people."
- schoen 10y ago> cassus belli Should just be one "s": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli
- jessaustin 10y ago...most armed conflict can be abstracted as resource exploitation... This might be true, but invariably it is massive excessive exploitation by the ruling class, rather than e.g. "we'd like to hunt in that creek bottom so we can eat some meat."