That may be a saying, but there's no actual evidence that it's true (just as with so many cultural narratives). Imagine how much better technology and innovation we might have if we hadn't wasted so much time and money trying to find more efficient ways to kill people? And 1% of people hold 44% of the wealth. Why aren't you talking about the massive wealth disparity and absurd divide in access to privilege? Why are YOU glossing over THAT?

“War is the locomotive of history,” Leon Trotsky claimed in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917. Was he correct? The answer is no; at least, not in his prediction that it would inevitably bring a communist revolution in the advanced capitalist countries, notably Britain and the United States."

You've completely bought into the stories and red herrings that keep you working for the oligarchs at your own expense - they can chew you up and spit you out and you'll thank them for the opportunity. They've got you right where they want you.