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If you're on the winning side, yeah they do
Most wars aren't "won" anymore.
Who loses least?
~~Blackwater~~ Academi
Except the ones making money from that, they often just win
Well, I guess we'll have to build more weapons... you've twisted my arm.
Not really. Even from an almost sociopathic perspective, the economic loss of sending a chunk of your population off to war instead of doing something more productive at home can kill the whole calculus. Sun Tzu had a whole bit on how expensive it is just to march an army around, as if he were trying to get nobels to understand that maybe you just fucking shouldn't.
He was, that's what half of the aphorisms are saying.
"Don't just do things think, please, I'm begging you."
No, if you're profiting off both sides.. You Win!
But those chickens come a roostin'