I watched The Fall of Civilizations podcast a few months ago on the Mongols and Genghis Kahn.

Genghis Kahn, realized, once he united the the Mongol people, he wouldn’t be able to hold them united without an enemy. He realized he needed an enemy and began the conquest.

I just wish for once the “enemy” could be an abstract, like hunger and poverty instead of our fellow man. Just once.