This is a fight over power, prestige and patronage. Violence has broken out when the legal outcome is unclear, which it is now.

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”

When you talk about building political power, you can't just talk about violence in the narrow sense of the word. You have to have a sense of spectacle and theater.

I wasn't interested in abstracting violence,

We were the only ones who held the keys, the only ones who could end the violence.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.