Totalitarian regimes acquire habits of brutality, habits of cavalier carelessness and an attitude of casual indifference to human life. Eventually it becomes SOP.
Major Strasser quote: My dear, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca human life is cheap. Good night, mademoiselle
In a way this is the direct, intuitive reason for Soleimani's downfall. For decades he had been getting away with murder. US troops, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranian dissidents. He lost his sense of limits, till finally as they say the gunfighter met someone faster than he was.
