The argument is often made that although some group committed a violent aggression, they were provoked into it by an act that was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. The South at Fort Sumter; the Russians in 2022; the Nazis: all those have had that argument made for them. The people who make that argument too often forget that the red flag only works because the bull is a bull. Humans react to the waving of a red flag by asking “Why are you waving that thing at me?” There are human...
