There are at 3 types of war: physical, economic and ideological. Shots fired, they coincide. But economic and ideological war can go on without physical war

Soviet Marxist propaganda with Relativism, ironically promoted to avoid ideological war, https://twitter.com/TheAliceSmith/status/1340609174833668097

made an army of ideologues. They find us defenceless, ironically thanks to destruction of new ideas by Relativism. The often wealthy intellectually disarmed are mobilized into all but insane, self-defeating support for Woke

History books claim peace between bouts of physical war

They sometimes mention economic but ignore ideological war. Despite an end to WW2 physical struggle, Marxist propaganda fights on. Also, despite the greatest book burning in history by the allies in the ruins of '45 Germany, elements of Nazi propaganda linger.

The Fuhrer Cult, where leadership is defined by behaviour, regardless of results, is straight from mid-C20 Germany. Today, it generates $100,000,000s as a cornerstone of Management training and consultancy.

In the US, they think a leader gets results. In the UK, results make a leader. You can't be one unless you get results. Respect has to be earned.

History does not need colonizing- it needs extending because it is far more interesting. Understand its battlegrounds.