I posted the following on MGO in reference to the subject of this thread on OCDO....
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Armed conflict is costly and uses up the wealth of the aggressor while it destroys the resources, the very wealth the aggressor desires, of the land in contention.
Changing the minds/attitudes/and beliefs of an entire people by infiltrating the education system and slowly indoctrinating the children in school eventually results in conquering not only the land in contention without destroying any of it's wealth but also the hope is it will only take a few short generations to change an entire country from believing in freedom to willing servitude.
And it is working quite nicely because it has only taken a frighteningly very few generations of children cycled through public school and college indoctrination to result in freedom and individualism becoming forgotten concepts by a dismaying amount of the now upcoming generation which has been successfully indoctrinated to believe that the government is a benevolent protector never understanding the protector is also the master.
And thus an entire country, an entire people, an entire society, is conquered without needing to fire a shot.