Victors

You are victors!

The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.

History is written by the victors.

Giving up their arms is not the victors' part.

Nor hath vengeance found / none save the Trojans; there the victors groan, / and valour fires the vanquished. All around / wailings, and wild affright and shapes of death abound.

They say that history is written by the victors, but that's not always true.

History is written by the victors. And when it comes to ancient history, it's mostly all men.