[T]he ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.
All Quiet on the Western Front, written by a WW1 veteran
Can we just let the leaders duke it out? 1 on 1 knife fights. Leave the people out of this shit
If only.