Within war, the rules are the rules of Mars and of honour. Kinda the point of a war is that the two sides have wildly different convictions regarding justice.
Thus, for a war to be "just" it's about something other than war. In particular, it's about the opponent having no honour, being impossible to trust. They cannot be negotiated with, and you'll find they often can't be deterred. The rational response to this is genocide. Kill everyone incapable of honourable war, that all wars might be honourable.
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New failcomment system also fails to publish my comments, it's not limited to yours. Keep trying, it will usually work, eventually.
Blogger deliberately trying to kill itself, I expect.
Captchas should be off. If it gives you one anyway, it's against my explicit instructions.