In the book Homodeus, it was written that the religion of the future is humanism. Where man replaces God. One of these ideas is that in the future, nations will compete and fight not for territory, but for people, for their talents, brains, and what they can give to humanity.
A terrorist country is already the largest country in the world. By territory. On the other hand, on Wikipedia, in the Russia Inventions section, Russia’s latest development is the 2020 vector vaccine and the Armata tank in 2016. It would seem that the money they spend on this meaningless war could be spent on settling the territory, making incredible scientific progress, inventing a cure for cancer, but they decided to spend it on destroying another country.
I really want to live to see the time when humanism will prevail, and those who think about territories first will simply not be able to hold them and will turn into Borderlands.