Yes, those eclipses are really problematic

Great news, great initiative

As usual, complete lack of self awareness. Change the name, and you get a textbook antisemitic argument from the 1920-1930s. Like there is a limited number of story plots, there is a limited number of dehumanizing narratives.

The Nazi propaganda used to make exactly this point about a different group of people

In a sense, that sounds like a (partial) return to the Early Modern practices, when the military fiscal state overrelied on what we would now see as the typical mafia style sources of income

Walter Scott. Old Mortality

Not just that. They contributed to scaling the Israeli methods all over the world. That's what misses from the discussion on Palestine. Some really nasty stuff may be happening in the backwoods of Colombia. But those practices don't scale up, as no one sees them as normal.

The key misconception about the large war is that it necessarily starts with an intention to launch a large war. It may absolutely start with an intention to launch a small victorious war. See Russia-Ukraine, 2022.