One can also check easily-discoverable recent US military policy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347453
to discover that those who think these things through don't condone "looting ⊃ shooting".
Bonaparte was a fan of the "whiff of grape" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_royaliste_du_13_v... but we all know how that ended.
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