Basic game theory. You could run this simulation 1,000’s of times and same result: Team A - always defends its own side. Team B - defends its own side sometimes. Team A (the left) wins. There is no stopping it. The only question is how soon until they take total power.
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On a long enough timeline, the most cruel and barbaric win because the good are too weak to stop them.
Often, yes. But if the most barbaric always won, wouldn't have developed civilization at all...
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The empirical Japanese and National Socialist Germans would be considered to be more barbaric and cruel than the western democracies they were facing and yet still lost.
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Imperial*
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http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html "From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and humanitarian) based on cooperation or non-cooperation with in-group and out-group agents." Ethnocentrism > broad humanitarianism when iterated
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