You really do a great job in presenting your perspective and raising questions to open conversations and encourage critical thinking at a critical moment.
My hope is that this kind of work that you are doing by publishing your writing will be utilized as opportunities to combat that divisiveness which is being pushed upon the people more and more.
For one, it seems that many would agree that most if not all governments are mostly, if not completely, UNtrustworthy.
Let's talk about what we agree on especially.
One way in which we may fall into that trap of divisiveness is in the delusion that a government IS the people. Or that a "country" IS the people who happen to live there.
I think it is a profoundly important point that you make here in asking us to question whether any of the scientists and various "workers" who end up becoming "collateral damage.. If they are likely to be in their position by choice at all...
War and "not war," just ultra-violence, whatever garbage way they want to rename it, is a highly profitable business. It is only that. And it is only profitable for a very few. I know that I am not and never will be one of them. Are you?
We are losing. The parasites are robbing us, all of us more and less, but all of the people. I agree that none of the people are any safer now. It's a business. Only that. And we are literally nothing at all to the ones who profit by it.
For now, I'll leave off with this truth expressed by W.E.B DuBois, "The cause of war is preparation for war."