Lol, I we were talking about justifications, not “war without a cause”.
Do you think the civil wars and revolts you linked to occurred… without justification? Because otherwise you were just posting a link of Roman conflicts with utterly no relevance to the conversation at hand, which is about what I’ve come to expect over the course of this conversation.
Do you think the civil wars and revolts you linked to occurred… without justification? Because otherwise you were just posting a link of Roman conflicts with utterly no relevance to the conversation at hand, which is about what I’ve come to expect over the course of this conversation.
Sure.
Here’s one briefly covering the very Roman origins of the concept of Just War and the contrast with Greeks and other civilizations of antiquity, as well as covering how the concept of just war primary had a resurgence with the Enlightenment, not as some eternal and intrinsic value held by mankind as you seem to think. Though I could go through considerable dispute with their view on Just War in the medieval period
Here’s one covering the importance of justifications for war in Roman culture and its origins
Here’s one covering the abhorrence of Romans at what they saw as an unjust war waged by one of their own
Here’s one covering the common and brutal amoral realpolitik espoused by Thucydides in examining and explaining the Greek wars of his time, including the attitudes of the actors involved
Here’s one on the very nakedly self-interested justifications of the Hellenic Macedonians in the conquests of Phillip and Alexander and how utterly unremarkable they were in context of contemporary societies
Here’s one on Germanic legal and moral thought regarding violence and war in antiquity
Here’s one on the Germanic ethos of violence for personal gain in late antiquity/early medieval period
But, you know, fuck all those, they’re reliant on the writing of elites and ethnic authors. What the fuck do they know?
Fuck’s sake.