Originally Posted by
Excargodog
There is a LOT of ghastly business in the historical record. Not sure current events are even as bad, and certainly not worse. The first war of the Industrial age (AKA, “the Great War” or WWI after there was a WWII) killed (conservatively) 15 million people. And that from a total world population only a quarter what we have today.
Few of our predecessors actually had it this good really, which of course is little comfort to those that are being affected.
Our predecessors being among the Grateful dead fortunately for them. The now game being leveraged superpower brinkmanship. The conflict is control centric. Control of; labor compensation/terms, air, land, water rights. Barriers/punishment for poaching and or perceived disloyalty a close 2nd. Nothing new there especially imo. Drones are relatively new.