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Just an observation. Post WWII there was some serious soul searching among European thinks and philosophers about how man could be capable of such terrible atrocities such as those committed by the Nazis. But is genocide part of human programming?

A common trait among warrior societies is to kill all the men and absorb all the women. this is seen in many tribes across the world.

But what about the beacon of civilisation that is Europe? Much of the world is the product of invasion, and the most widespread invaders are those who speak Indo-European languages. the area of land on the planet controlled by indo-European speakers reached a peak last century with almost 90% of the globe under Indo-European control. And this invasion created rivers of blood, much of it perpetrated on other Indo-Europeans.

But back to my question, was the genocide in the 1940s unique historically in Europe? well the answer turns out to be no. 7000 years ago the earliest Indo-European speakers called the Yamnaya tamed the horse and using the horse and chariot spread east, south and west. East into central Asia, south into India and Iran and west into Europe. In the process they killed 95% of all men on planet earth and kept the women for themselves
https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin- ... 474c75278e
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... ncien-dna/

So it seems we live with the Indo-European legacy, we inherited the culture of mass murder from our ancestors and formalised our culture built on a warrior society and wonder why in 2025 we give so much money to the armed forces and find pleasure in games/sport that echo warfare and death and fund wars across the world.

I don't believe it is a uniquely Indo-European phenomenon.
There is a history of warfare in Chinese and Japanese cultures, for example.

there is, and its likely to have happened in many tribes across the world. the Carib Indians in mesoamerica and the Melanesian and Maori tribes of the south pacific to name a few.

But Indo-Europeans were the OGs of genocide. Murdering 90-95% of the world's males is a pretty comprehensive wipe out. We have genocide in our blood.

I just feel that war and genocide is human nature for mankind throughout all time not just the Indo-Europeans but hey thats just me.

Agreed, but the level of global genetic bottle neck created by the ancestors of the Indo-Europeans is something that has only happened once in history.
Hitler and Hirohito maybe caused a 10-20% drop in the global population
Stalin maybe 5-10%
Genghis maybe 10-20%

But the Yamnaya damn well killed 95% of all men who lived on the planet and replaced all men in Europe with their Y chromosome. I think we all carry their traits that created the colonial empires, mass slavery and the Mussolini's, Stalins and Hitlers who came after.