@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I mean, if I had to pick a winner of all the wars and and military conflicts I've seen play out in my lifetime that the US was involved in, I would start a list that begins with "Halliburton".
Cause I think that's it. If the entire history of European and US meddling in the middle east and other places hadn't already convinced one that 'violence is a great way to shuffle the pieces on the board and that's it', well, the post 9/11 history of Iraq and Afghanistan...
While I am Very Loud and blow off steam publicly, I genuinely think no strategy out of these types of situations can be achieved without building something. And a nation state can't build a society in the way that people need; it can enforce one, or perhaps reinforce one, but, well... anyway. People have to build it.