It's an interesting thing watching this. It reminds me of the colonies arriving in the Americas and how they slowly won. We make this huge story of winning by guns, but really, nice guys let us in and then lost to someone else. Someone else didn't care about lands BC and F, so we took that, and then slowly surrounded someone else. We kept this up till we won. Guns didn't become a major factor until 1870.

So, we are watching it happen again, and the people in charge seem to think they will end up on top because their own personal wars will be won somehow.