WARLORDS of ATTRITION

Who is the grandmaster of weakening everyone since the beginning of the fake version of this place we call the matrix?
What is the oldest form of warfare? I learned this term during the lockdown from our favorite Musad agent, A.J., back when I occasionally still listened to a little bit of his yelling.

It seems like some "gods" or "lords" were orchestrating it all along, rendering most humans into suffering miserable piles of psychic mess perfect for loosh extraction. Were they using the most popular tricky hijack maneuver ever? - the vast swaths of horrific actions of weakening over the millennia done covertly to, often, fully control humans, by the supreme creators ... of attrition!