• jonne@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    They could just send their excess men to the disputed border where they can just hit each other with sticks.

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      1 year ago

      That is the traditional solution, the alternative being insurrection. Sitting governments, for obvious reasons, generally choose your option.

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        Starship troopers has a line in it that the crusades were created by population pressure (primarily young men being denied a good chance at a future).