Yes, Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials that although no population is ever eager to go to war, it is the job of their leaders to make such decisions for them, and then to persuade the populace to support the war by convincing them that:

1. their country is already under dire threat or actual attack by the supposed enemy

2. the enemy is irredeemably evil and is committing atrocities on humanity

3. the defeat of this enemy will be beneficial to freedom, justice, and mankind generally...

Ho hum. Same old BS used by every aggressor.

- LH