In 1887 an Englishman called Lord Acton famously wrote

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power

corrupts absolutely”

I don’t have an

argument

with that

but it

seems

to me he

stopped a

little short of

the whole truth

so I will fill in the rest -

power tends to make you stupid

and absolute power ... well y’all get it

This purty well explains why wars get