“War is about armies fighting armies ~ or it’s supposed to be.”
No such thing. Never was. You as a nation don’t get to hide behind your army and claim innocence. Armies are of a nation and a nation is her people. Again, if you don’t like war don’t get all cocky and think your army will win and it will be the only thing attacked and suffer. After your army was defeated your men were killed, your women raped and your children enslaved, your land taken and your villages burned to the ground. That was war. It reminds you not to be so stupid as to wage war.
I don’t get why you believe aggressors should be given a pass and shown kindness upon defeat only for them to return again years later. Germany should have been disbanded after WWI such that WWII could not have happened, yet, we showed them mercy and let their little nation remain.
Bingo.