Here's my take on it. You heard it here first:
We are coming into a time when most people around the world look to the U.S. as the source of a blight, and their own governments as equally corrupt partners, who willing distributed toxic financial instruments throughout the world economic system. That's why there may be a greater case for intra-national conflicts over and above inter-national conflicts, not that conventional wars won't happen. But it has struck me, that from the time of the first deployment of Nuclear weapons to the present, elites around the world (whom I feel are ' a priori' dirty, anyway) have seen that this idea of starting a war with your neighbors, killing a few million of them, and you lose a few million, was no longer a feasible project. In the old days, after a war, the political elites on the losing side would pay a huge price, but the industrial elites often would slink back into something like their prewar obscurity, but with a lot more cash. In the Nuclear age, the industrial/banking elites realized that wars of that type could land them in a nuclear fireball, the homeland was no longer a safe place to be while you sent your poor plebeians 'over there' to fight, so their predatory instincts had to find a new paradigm. I think the mimicking of tactics in the banking industry against their middle classes from country to country ( think of little, bankrupt, Iceland here, or Eastern Europe, broke), shows an unparalleled international cooperation and communication among power elites, that historically, are more generally rivals. These, I believe, are the 'unintended consequences' of the Nuclear age.
This is how the elites of the world decided to stop quarreling with each other and join hands to screw us all, directly, without the normal vehicle of international war. The war machine still exists, and creates small wars with countries that can't fight back, and demonizes them, to keep that part of the game going..., but between 'advanced countries', it's now a Banker's Game, not a War Game.
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