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5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop
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Our recent crop of mega billionaires really prove there is no reasonable limit to greed. There’s always been this assumption that the rich will hit a satisfaction point and give their excess to charity, and that’s why we don’t need to tax them. These guys prove that assumption false every day
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1. Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true
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2. Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics
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3. The rationale given for a war will change over time, such that actual success or failure in achieving a named objective is less relevant than one might think
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