This is the problem with “status quo”: it makes one blind to actuality.

It isn’t the US that is addicted to wars, it is male US presidents who are, & there simply haven’t been enough female US presidents to get a baseline for them, obviously!

Identify that in male-culture such macho assertions-of-authority increase one’s male-culture “status”, & that that is significant in world-history … not just in the US of A.

It’s a significant thing, one’s gender-culture.

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