"sacrifice a number of its citizens to propitiate a new war"
At first glance I thought of 'precipitate', as in the initiation the unstoppable cascade or avalanche, and then I realised you are correctly appropriate.
'Initiate'... 'to be initiated'... there is another word with resonance in the human psyche and our cultures that quite literally we hand on!
merry christmas to you and your family ugo
"sacrifice a number of its citizens to propitiate a new war"
At first glance I thought of 'precipitate', as in the initiation the unstoppable cascade or avalanche, and then I realised you are correctly appropriate.
'Initiate'... 'to be initiated'... there is another word with resonance in the human psyche and our cultures that quite literally we hand on!