“This war seems to be as bad as any since ‘45 (in the West). Let’s hope it’s doesn’t end up worse.”
How can any conflict end up better? This is the absurdity of war. But sometimes war is neccessary.
Stripping leadership to the waist and equipping them with swords would probably end war before it ever started.
The surviving leadership could then be flogged into idiocy.
“ How can any conflict end up better?”
Well for starters it could could stay a regional conflict and not a world war that ends with the use of nuclear weapons on cities.