...I use "America" here as an example, but nearly every "nation-state" partakes in such activities at different levels of scale and in various ways. It is a human issue. People use labels to split themselves into competing factions that fight to the death ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis ) over seemingly finite resources ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game ).
"The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world." - Walter Wink
Indeed. It is important to understand the infrastructure and psychology which sustains it...On the one hand, we have a "news" and "entertainment" media-complex that stirs up drama by sensationalizing events and fetishizing violence until one cannot see the difference between the two ( https://pepperdine-graphic.com/opinion-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-the-modern-implications-of-an-outdated-phrase/ ).
On the other hand, we have narratives that are tightly controlled through things like "embedded journalism" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pihg4jkByts ) and "propaganda" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDuxFnn2RY ), where important information gets "memory holed" to the point that even relatively recent history gets obscured ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0Ql0VfcRg ).
Culture itself is used as a weapon ( https://merip.org/2010/05/culture-as-a-weapon/ ), so is it any surprise that we find the peacefaking that we do under the guise of "DEI programs" ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2870194/How-government-infiltrated-Cuban-HIP-HOP-botched-attempt-overthrow-communist-government.html )? Or "international aid" ( https://johnpilger.com/the-new-rulers-of-the-world/ )?
The stories on the inside of the "echo chamber" are comfortable fantasies and the image projected outward is a facade. Meanwhile, physical weapons are being created that divorce one from the carnage that they produce ( https://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ethics-Symp-pg119-131.pdf ) and paint them as a "necessary evil" at worst, or "innovative" at best ( https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/ ).
The worship of death has been "automated" and ossified into an AI algorithm ( https://dronecenter.bard.edu/the-disposition-matrix/ ) as people rush towards "fifth-generation warfare" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare ) in the unending quest for "total" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war ) and "perpetual" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war ) war.
...I use "America" here as an example, but nearly every "nation-state" partakes in such activities at different levels of scale and in various ways. It is a human issue. People use labels to split themselves into competing factions that fight to the death ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis ) over seemingly finite resources ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game ).
There are biases that allow one to see themselves as a "hero" ( https://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/2024/02/02/heroism-phenomena-identified-by-scott-allisons-research-lab-2005-present/ ) and make others into a "scapegoat" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating )...The behavior is transmitted through time by the stories people tell themselves, until the only story they know is "The Myth of Redemptive Violence".
"The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world." - Walter Wink
damn dude you must be thirsty, save some water for everyone else
ROFL! "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9fR7sHw9Y8 )