[syops]

According to this Adam Tooze article the wars cost around 800,000 dead people. Then there is the incalculable emotional cost to survivors and participants. This alone means that spending $6 trillion building trains would have been much better than on war.

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-34-how-we-paid-fo...

[sumedh]

Dont forget that the some of the kids who watched their parents being killed by American drones would have the desire to take revenge later when they grow up.