Sometimes with overt brute displays of power and other times with the brutality masked a little better. This is neither pessimistic or optimistic - just reality. Warfare for my ancestors was engaged in for family - kith and kin. You take care of yours - I'll take care of mine. The law of the wolf pack.
Good fences make good neighbors.
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