Reply #70: I don't mean to come off as mean or condescending, but

[leftist_not_liberal]

that is just naive.

You'll never go wrong being a student of history when you have these big issues like war and economics to grapple with. Indeed nothing is really quite as important as being a student of history.

Consider this succinct and largely accurate bit of history (but take the source with a lotta salt, it is not anything I am familiar with and looks like it probably is wildly conspiratorial. But as we have seen in the OP on this thread wildly conspiratorial can sometimes be, well, just history)-
http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-1/ww1.htm

Surely you see that the biggest profits in the world are made by those at the top of the war machine.