I suspect it has gone past value in the military sense. Zel$ is trying to make the only statement he can, Political.
ST gain for LT pain. He creates the disasters constantly and the next guy will have to find ways to clean up the mess, most likely a lifetime journey. The smart ones are those able to flee like our resident Ms Andi, cheering in foreign lands for his/her/them people to get smashed constantly and politicised the horror of war.
The US don't care, the Europeans want to care but can't and the other vassals especially in SE Asia are patiently hoping they don't meet the same fate as the EU.
