The thing that's so funny to me about dips who claim to swear by "might makes right" is that it's almost always through a layer of insecurity and hypocrisy. They deep down know that one day the shoe could be on the other foot once they lose their edge, and if that day ever comes they'd be whistling a very different tune. So they also add in bullshit moralistic arguments (or something about "civilization") for good measure.
The Rhodesians, French Algerians, white South Africans, and WWII German settlers all said similar things, in fact. That they "won" their ill-gotten gains through the tip of the sword and the natives had best put up with it as it's just the way the world is. Then they acted mad and cried "terrorism" (which is illegitimate, unlike wars of conquest) when those natives said "no" before their settler-colonial regimes were resigned to the great charnel pit of history.
