Interesting sub concept.
It has been my observation that the following holds true for all conflicts, whether personal, national, political, racial or global:
All conflict escalates until it ends in exactly one of three ways: Reconciliation, Separation, or Annihilation.
They may go by different names, depending on context. And sometimes you can negotiate and come to terms, to pick one and avoid another. But, in the end, all conflict ends with one of these three options. Either you settle and agree to respect each other again. Or you go your separate ways to avoid further conflict. Or the conflict will continue to escalate, until you seek to destroy each other, and finally one or more parties can fight no more.
Everything else is just stalling for time and delaying the inevitable.
So, when faced with conflict, one ought to ask oneself: Are there any acceptable conditions under which the enemy would be willing to reconcile? If not, then the next question should be: Are there any acceptable conditions under which the enemy would be willing to separate?
If there are no conceivable conditions, under which the enemy might come to respect your position, or at least be willing to walk away and be content to leave you be, then that leaves only one option. And so one should prepare for the inevitable. One should prepare quickly and well. And be decisive and final in its execution. Lest one finds oneself on the wrong end of that equation.
I concur. Usually conflicts are settled by brute force. Those who have more people on their side or better weapons are always in the position of supremacy to dictate their rules.
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