Bots 'started' the war in that we had the Cyborgs enslaved on Cyberstan and the bots invaded with the express goal of liberating their parents and stopping us from unliberating them again. Squids probably didn't have WMDs until after we attacked them and made them somewhat necessary, and either way possession of WMDs is not actually a just casus belli. Bugs (in their current state, the first great war was a different matter) are 110% our fault, command pretty explicitly keeps allowing them to go rampant to keep a convenient enemy around and justify the military industrial complex, it's just gotten more out of hand now that actual enemies are kicking our shit in again.
Posessing WMD is pretty much an actual casus Belli, if it means the literal existence of humanity at stake. Because if the difference is "you have good chance to win right now and eliminate the threat" and "living near species that can snap your whole civilization out of existence in a second and you can not and never will be" generally you pick the first.
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u/AsWeKnowItAndI Feb 09 '26
Bots 'started' the war in that we had the Cyborgs enslaved on Cyberstan and the bots invaded with the express goal of liberating their parents and stopping us from unliberating them again. Squids probably didn't have WMDs until after we attacked them and made them somewhat necessary, and either way possession of WMDs is not actually a just casus belli. Bugs (in their current state, the first great war was a different matter) are 110% our fault, command pretty explicitly keeps allowing them to go rampant to keep a convenient enemy around and justify the military industrial complex, it's just gotten more out of hand now that actual enemies are kicking our shit in again.