Rule isn't the answer, it's the question, the answer is "Yes"

When two sides are fighting, and one uses violence and the other doesn't, side using violence almost always wins.

I'm like 99% sure that "Violence is never the answer" is just yet ever more rich fuck propaganda.

Violence is the answer when less universal languages stop being an option

re reads 2nd amendment Huh. Now it makes sense.

Soap box

Ballot box

Ammo box <-- we are here not by choice, but we must answer

A rich jackass with no actual government position took the podium at the presidential inauguration, did the nazi salute, and wasn't promptly shot or arrested. That says a lot about the state of this country.

It's not the answer, it's the question. The answer is "yes"

I think the Geneva conventions were also something rather new because biological warfare, civilian hostages including women and children, massacres, and destruction of vital resources like food and water were pretty standard for thousands of years of war and combat.

Of course as history has shown, no one actually bothers to follow the Geneva conventions when they face zero consequences but will totally complain if anyone else doesn't (cough Israel cough).

Biological weapons, for the time being, are mutually banned because disease is hard to control in a warzone where anything has the chance to mutate or evolve. Gas attacks are used exclusively against civilians because every army has gas masks. Although iirc Iraq used it to create a massive untraversable barrier against Iran. Otherwise everything is apparently still the same.