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It is the same in nowadays war's. Civility or at least the sincere try to keep it is almost always interpreted as weakness.

While state-terrorism on the other hand never is adressed as such. It is mislabelled as "victory" all to often.

And hedonism and decadence of the ruling class in certain extends almost always are signs of a society failing as such.

Trajan was the "best" emperor Rome ever had, imho.

After that... well it is history now. Looking at some imperialists of todays times it is a pity that most of them seemingly didn't even try to learn from these ancient mistakes in judgement.