Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.

yurishimo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

War… war never changes.

From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either.

I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.

	▲	somenameforme 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Eisenhower's farewell speech [1] is also basically prophetic, which is quite unfortunate in that they were all warnings of things to vigilantly avoid. [1] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp