Originally Posted by
Elkvis
Naive how? I believe that this is the most rational reason to stop fighting war. I believe every nation needs a strong national defense, but to instigate conflict outside your own borders is morally wrong, and even to get involved in someone else's conflict is morally questionable. Humanitarian aid is one thing, but direct military action in a war in which you hold no stake is a slippery slope.
Every war in the last 200 years (or more) has been fought for one thing: money. On the surface, they've been labeled as wars of independence, wars to end slavery, wars to liberate nations from sadistic regimes. In reality, they've been about nothing but money. The war that the Russians fought in Afghanistan was ultimately for natural resources, and the continuing US operations exist for the same purpose. Even the civil war was more about money than anything else. The central banks fund the wars, and of course wars incur massive debt. WW2 was funded on both sides by the central banks, which funded the Germans, because the central banks are mostly run by Germans, but they also funded the Allies, in hopes that they would defeat the anti-Semitic Nazis, because those running the central banks were, at least at that time, also primarily Jews.