Remember that old Star Trek TOS episode where Kirk was on a planet that had been at war with another planet for 500 years? They used computers to log “missile strikes” and all the people in that area had to go into disintegration chambers. It preserved their infrastructure and culture while only killing people.
So Kirk ruins their computer so they don’t know which people need to be killed and they fall behind. They say, “Don’t you realized that now the enemy will use REAL bombs and destroy our cities?!” To which Kirk replies, “And now you know why war is a thing to be avoided.”
And the other planet sued for peace. THe computers made the war to “convenient”.
Trump just pulled a Kirk.
That episode remembered here. :)
The original Star Trek, by far the best of the bunch.
A very fine analogy. :)