[Toucan Dance]

Not, I think, very nutritious food for thought. Here’s a different thought: People with their hands in each other’s pockets are not going to take them out to shoot and kill each other. The developed nations are now too interconnected economically to start wars. Plus, do you really think bankers and politicians want people to die in war so they can enrich themselves? How low is your opinion of these people? This is like the theory that there’s a cure for cancer but medical science is hiding it because there’s SO much money to be made treating cancer. No.

[dfwgator]

Plus, do you really think bankers and politicians want people to die in war so they can enrich themselves?

Hitler played that one to the hilt. Used it as the justification for the Holocaust.

[DJ Taylor]

"... do you really think bankers and politicians want people to die in war so they can enrich themselves?

Are you really so naive as to think otherwise?

[DuncanWaring]

Here’s a different thought: People with their hands in each other’s pockets are not going to take them out to shoot and kill each other. The developed nations are now too interconnected economically to start wars.

There was a fellow back around 1910 who wrote a book (the name escapes me) making precisely that point; that for economic reasons, there would never be another major war in Europe.