"...politics"

I should not have got involved, but couldn't help it. The subject of the fire bombing of Dresden was being chatted up. As usual both sides were at it. "The worse atrocity in history vs "...the necessities of Total War". Dresden was burned away by the Allies as a deliberate act of Total War politics. This to tell the Nazi government of Germany that they were defeated. That War begun by Nazi German, and Imperial Japan claimed it is now thought upwards of 80 million of people. Many cities were murdered by all sides many worlds destroyed. The Second Hundreds Years War 1914~1991.  From 1914 WW1, 1939 WW2 then the many proxy wars to the fall of the Soviet Union 1991. This was the worse disaster the West has ever endured. We now live in the violent chaotic aftermath of the 2nd Hundreds Years War. Some call it the "Age of Terror".