Chapter 185: Accomplice

"Some people simply don't have the capacity to fight; you can't demand it of them," Wei Tianyang shook his head.

Not only the elderly, women, children babbling their first words, but also the disabled veterans, the middle-aged with illnesses, and the women shattered in body and spirit from being bullied—it wasn't that they were unwilling to fight, but that they had lost the ability to do so.

According to Rada Gan, these people would also be discarded.

But what about those who did have the ability to fight? What was their purpose in going to war if not to protect those behind them who couldn't?

The opposing side was no different. The soldiers were merely weapons in the hands of politicians, their souls filled with relentless propaganda churned out by the state's machinery, that meaningless rage compelling a farmer's son to traverse oceans and mountains, to kill another farmer's son—that was the essence of war.