‘Simmering in their destruction’ is certainly one possibility, but look at North Korea. In the wake of their US-inflicted devastation, the Kim dynasty emerged and devoted all resources, both human and natural, to creating nuclear weapons so that the US could not do that again.

There was a shortformvid clip I saw some time ago that stuck with me: You can only ‘believe’ in something that does NOT have evidence for it (or at least not conclusive evidence), otherwise you would KNOW it to be true. Belief requires a certain amount of uncertainty. Note that I am in no way religious and in no way am saying people should believe religious texts, just sharing an interesting take on the concept of ‘believing’

who keeps upvoting this bullshit?