As everyone knew, when it came to war, a nation's upper and lower classes often held completely different attitudes.
The lower classes were usually influenced by propaganda and public opinion, gradually developing intense anger, disgust, and even deep hatred toward the enemy.
Their experience of war was the most direct. They had to risk their lives amid gunfire on the battlefield, fighting desperately while watching comrades fall beside them—or even at their feet. Family members in the rear would likewise be devastated upon hearing that a father or son had died in battle.
Such emotions would persist throughout society for a long time, only easing once the generation that had experienced the war gradually grew old and died.
But unlike the lower classes, who were locked in such fierce confrontation, the ruling class at the top often rarely harbored that kind of bone-deep hatred.
In their eyes, war was merely a means of shifting contradictions, acquiring benefits, and consolidating power.
Thus, anyone who opened a history book would find countless cases where the lower classes of two nations fought with blazing fury, even reaching the point where citizens of one country would try every possible means to kill anyone they found from the enemy nation to vent their rage.
Meanwhile, the upper classes continued doing business, negotiating, arranging marriages, and even sitting together laughing and chatting at banquets.
It sounded absurd, almost surreal, yet it had appeared time and time again throughout thousands of years of civilization.
After all, in the eyes of those upper-class rulers, ordinary people were merely strings of numbers in manpower statistics. Their actions and thoughts could both be manipulated, and they would ultimately serve as bargaining chips against other competitors at the negotiating table.
But this was even more pronounced in the Kree Empire.
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