People keep talking about it like this started during or after WWII. MK was just one refinement of technique program for the modern age.
Q didn't link fucking BLOODLINES clown library by accident. Their families carry sociopath-making forward like an incurable mental virus.
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And how do you keep your descendants from going soft ala Princess Diana? You put blood on their hands and crazy in their heads. You elevate the worst and kill the best. Monarch is just extending that logic to make an army.
"People" implies there's a 1:1 ratio between living human being and those accounts.