Powerful regional warlords and militant leaders are jockeying to widen their turf to include areas with mineral wealth, and the Taliban have begun to make murderous incursions into territory where development is planned.
Many developing countries are plagued not just by ordinary volume crimes, but also by culturally-sanctioned violence against women and gays and serious forms of transnational crime such as sex trafficking, drug trafficking, murderous incursions by militias, and theft of natural resources including valuable minerals, endangered animals, fish stocks and timber.
"Our foundational drama as a society," Faludi insists, was "murderous homeland incursions by dark-skinned, non-Christian combatants under the flag of no recognised nation".
In this period, horrors at the front – such as the first Red Army incursion into German territory at Nemmersdorf in East Prussia – would increasingly be matched by horrors at home, as the murderous SS condemned to death all those who dared to resist or showed insufficient martial spirit.
Russia denied any incursion.
Invasions, incursions, excusing causes, call of the blood, summons to the bloody flag, casuistic body counts, just wars, necessary wars, religious wars, needful wars, holy wars — into the fury of the murderous crosswinds went her simple word: no".
Berserk murderous blood rage.
Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.
Calm about the hipster incursion.
