orwell had this one sorted, you see:
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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the circuits of commodity fetishism and the fulfillment of every desire thereby could only be opposed by a lunatic, and so every form of opposition is lunacy and so every act of collective violence a defense and so no-one has to think in terms of responsibility, just reacting, in order to preserve the way of life.