Nuclear armed nations with the most expensive military controlling massive logistics supply route attacked and lost the war and were forced to escalate to nuclear detonation and then to ceasefire talks.

Buddy. That is not how winning looks like.

If casualty count is your criteria, then Soviet Union was defeated in world war 2 according to you.

If you think distributed architecture is about rescuing a bunch of people, then clearly you haven't done any serious work in your life. Go write some code and build some distributed systems.