Originally Posted by logtroll
Originally Posted by Ezekiel
Originally Posted by logtroll
My answer is, "I don't care". Do you care?
I don't know what reasons you previously stated.
Yes I do.
Please refer to this thread when you asked the same question and I answered it.
Then why don't you make an effort to "solve" the problem? State a hypothesis, present some evidence, test the hypothesis. That might be interesting.
I am asking others if they have any thoughts on the matter. That is usually how it begins. Some may have read or thought about the subject and may have come up with a hypothesis or two. Based on that we can have a REAL discussion and not reduce the exchange to what one thinks as opposed to what another thinks.
I have already stated that I think economics IS the MAIN motivation for war.
The reasons are, as others have said, that there is always some economic component, which I think is the main component because power always seeks to entrench itself and guarantee, not just its own survival (as Scout aptly pointed out), but growth (as a form of "immortality"). Political power IS economic power and, in today's world, economic power IS political power. So, by extension, increasing economic power is increasing political power.

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