Pretty much all of the 20th Century is about repetitive squandering of lives, almost as capriciously as that Evangelist-cipher guy trying to square things with Daddy--and starting an unending series of ground-war$ in ... 'Asia'.

Sick species do Sick Things
qed

(As for the 21st Century (if anyone's around to make calendars towards its end)--stay tuned.)
It's identical Bizness-as-usual, so far: nothing Learned from the last one. Nothing at all.