Promoting Adversaries in Military, Politics, and Economics
Promoting adversaries works within a tendency where those opposed are increasingly polarized. When the tactic is used, it has the effect of making those involved in the relationship even more extreme than they were to begin with. Fundamentalist groups become more fanatical ... and nations, agencies, militaries & political parties become more repressive and authoritarian -- as the time they oppose each other increases in quantity.
It is argued by some that the modern day military tactic of suicide bombing emerged from conditions in which one or more promoting adversaries relationships developed.
In George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the three remaining super nations left in the world profit from attacking each other and do so without end.
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