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If I could put my tinfoil hat on for just a moment, i would say an indefinite war was the intent. If you have an unruly populace, what better place than the front lines to send them? The gulag? Nah, they aren't producing anything while sitting in a prison. Meanwhile, the front lines are wearing down an enemy populace, and if they are killed there, great. One less dissident to worry about. It's also a great way to consolidate even more power, if those dissidents happen to be part of the oligarchy who grew a conscience.
But this tinfoil theory would imply he's playing 4D chess out there, and i don't think there's any evidence to support that. Even if it's a convenient way to remove dissidents, and likely being done to a certain extent, i would surmise this extended war effort is due to plain incompetence and decades of greed surfacing and not the main objective. Slava Ukraini ✊🏻
My next tinfoil hat theory is that this assumes Iran a willing participant in this circle jerk war. Seeing how Iran came out on top in that brief crease fire deal, it could be possible that targets hit so far were considered "soft targets". Now I'm not so callous to say a school full of children is a soft target, but with the players currently involved, i wouldn't put it past them to purposefully hit civilian targets to drum up recruitment for the other side, to give yourself more hard targets to hit. And any major attack against a hard target could be seen as letting one in to not give away the game at hand. Even the initial attack against the old leadership could be seen as letting the new leadership in, but that's so much tinfoil, my fillings are starting to buzz.
There would have to be an investigation into the targeting choices to try and figure out if that's what's really going on, in which under a certain threshold and i would classify those as deliberate.
Now i will fully admit that I'm talking out of my ass here as i haven't really been closely following Operation Epstein Fury. But there are certainly some news pieces recently that lead me to suspect something fucky is going on in the background, even if it turns out it's just what we already know: market manipulation and gambling on war.
What you are describing is not really tinfoil hat.
You are basically describing the poltical theory of oligarchical collectivism, as outlined by Emmanuel Goldstein, in 1984.
Go read 1984 again.
The entire operating concept of the forever war between Oceania, EastAsia and Eurasia is that they all throw their economic might into never ending wars, to solve the capitalist problem of overproduction, and also simultaneously create totalitarian police states that keep the proles under control, to keep the oligarchs comfy and in power.
Like the entire genre of cyberpunk... its a 'this was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual' situation.
You're right, I should go read 1984 again, lol.
At this point I would suggest grabbing a physical or local digital copy, before it becomes a thoughtcrime.