Надо тебе, скажем, споить народ... Ну и объяви борьбу с алкоголизмом... Надо расшатать дисциплину – объяви борьбу за её укрепление...
Евгений Лукин
Not literally but close: If you want to make a nation drunkards all, start an anti-alcoholic campaign; to slacken discipline, declare a fight to tighten up discipline...
Fighting for something seems to be the very best way of destroying the Something.
Curiously, nowadays most of the world seem to be fighting for Peace... Dangerous, no?