That's the shape of war though, two wrongs making a right, two sides merely "defending" themselves, over and over again.

If two sides are exclusively defending, there won't be war. So I guess that's the shape of the fairy tale, whereas the reality is shaped by escalation, in the form of aggression (of any kind.)

mostly_harmless

Ray Dalio's comments on the beginning of our new civil war

elvismercury

> That's the shape of war though, two wrongs making a right, two sides merely "defending" themselves, over and over again.

If two sides are exclusively defending, there won't be war. So I guess that's the shape of the fairy tale, whereas the reality is shaped by escalation, in the form of aggression (of any kind.)