I wrote a book a number of years ago, Dying for the Country. This is the cause of war and an explanation for war and the purpose of war: to DIE FOR ONE'S COUNTRY.

This has happened many times before and it's happening now. It's what's common to all wars: human beings die for a country.

The Law of Parsimony or Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the best. What you see is what you get. A lot of dead people. The "leader" pf Russia is killing people because he wants them dead. That's what Hitler did. That's what Stalin did. That's what Mao did. The production of dead bodies, which they call "history."

Mei Ha says that Russia wants to "take over" the country. What does this mean to "take over" a country. Please provide an operational definition. What you see is dead bodies: the most parsimonious way of describing what is happening.

That's the way the First World War ended up: Nine million dead bodies. Nothing accomplished (that's what Jay Winters says). Dead bodies: the purpose of the First World War.

The result of "Putin's "war?" A lot of dead people. Why not hypothesize that this is the objective of war? At least Putin understands this: he wants to see a lot dead Ukrainians, and dead Russians is OK too. 

What you see is what you get. The most parsimonious or elegant (a word my dissertation supervisor was fond of) explanation: the objective of warfare is to produce a lot of dead bodies.

Watch what happens (link)!

Richard Koenigsberg