If you want to predict the future of any conflict, find out who is sponsoring it. Terrorism, revolutions and civil wars require large investments. To become a real threat, popular discontent must be used by members of the social elite. Vladimir Lenin once said that for his cause he could take money from Satan himself. Satan was Germany, with whom Lenin concluded a deal: In exchange for the sponsoring of the Bolshevik revolution, he promised, in case of victory, to sign with Germany a separate peace agreement, ceding to it a huge part of Russian territory and betraying Russia's allies...