Western Conolization used their own poor people as terraformers and cannon fodder, and other forms of slavery. History books don't mention what has happened to the poor Europeans during colonization of the so called "new world" and the industrial revolution, which removed all the small landholders from the common lands, moved them to the cities, and starved/worked them to death, used them as cannon fodder in wars or moved them to debt prisons and shipped them off to work their debt off on new world plantations.

India, or what we now call India, has been at war forever. I remember studying King Ashoka, the third Mauryan, who ruled between 269 BC and 233 BC, and his reign of horrible wars in my Buddhist studies.

We, humans, keep falling for the same old con jobs, hate other poor folks, fight for the elites manufactured wars, and follow authority no matter how crazy they are.