When you search for reasons why the US and the UK are so easily able to induce their populations to support every new war -- and why media is the primary weapon to do so -- you can't overestimate how much strength weak men derive from war cheerleading. Adam Smith in 1776:
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Without doubt: it's the reason European royals would send themselves and their kids to the front lines of whatever wars they started. It's the only real test of whether a war is just: are you willing to die or have your loved ones die to fight it?
