This is the sort of story that makes me hover between sadness and intense anger at basically everyone and every institution that perpetuates a world like this. At some point, I feel like someone ought to have gone "you know what? Fuck this war" and done a coup to stop it, but who knows if that'd even matter to such an institutional bloodbath as this war appears to have become. Maybe they'd try and the other side - which had had its coup a decade or two earlier I guess - would just shoot the messengers, maybe nobody actually thinks to just ask the other side to fuck off, who knows what bullshit would happen to perpetuate this war.