When it come to war, the princes declare them and the peasants fight them. When the war is over, the princes get something they wanted, or, if they lose, spend the time between that war and the next one plotting how they could reverse that. For them, something is gained, while those who do the fighting go home to the same lives and the same conditions they had been living.

Every leader, whether lawfully in that position or through the improper use of power, eventually is dead, and the conditions that people died for have changed, sometimes in ways that totally cancel what the leader had people die for.

Unless there is some unfortunate event, Donald Trump could live another 20 years and die in his 90s. In that 20 years he could increase his financial standing and increase his social life counting some important people among his friends. He could be Big Man On Campus with the world as his campus.

Then he will be gone until the end of time and beyond.

A 20 year old who fights in the soon to be next war will be 40 at the end of that same 20 year period living an additional 50+ years if he or she lives as long as Trump might.  That is 50 years of dealing with the results of a war both nationally and personally.

Oh, we might think those who die will be on in our memories with gratitude for their sacrifice, but veteran cemeteries are filled with people no one remembers. Those who are maimed physically or mentally have a long haul ahead of them, and few will actually care.

And for what?

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A temporary and fleeting betterment of someone else’s life with no tangible benefit to themselves but the empty phrase, “Thank you for your service”?

One will die soon and happy. The rest will be around for years.

That’s how war works. A temporary fix that benefits the leaders and their offspring until they pass and things change for the next leader and kids.

World War I was the war to end all wars, concessions were made after thousand were kill, and we are far from the results of that war.

While others’ sons and daughters go off to war, the children of those who never fought a war will themselves sit this one out, but collect the benefits.

As Tom Paxton Wrote

“When kings make war
The poor little men must fight them
They must do more
They hold out their necks
For great lord’s swords to bite them
The sons of lords cleave through their ranks
In the hopes some warrior king might knight them
It’s what the poor little men are for
When kings make war.”

There will be appeals to patriotism and purposeful division between an us and them promoted by claims of patriotism, but there will be nothing behind those claims. Flag makers will make a killing, military arms manufactures will make huge profits, politician and businessmen will reap benefits, and all those who fight will be thanked for their services and forgotten until those same politicians can use them to promote themselves.

And while others’ kids go off to war, the politicians’ kids will stay home and cheer them on.