Originally Posted by Ezekiel
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Maybe you need to start with a hypothesis about economics being the motivation for everything.

Why?
Because it appears that you have included that conjecture in your definitions for the stated hypothesis about the cause of war. I don't think that supporting a hypothesis with conjecture is accepted scientific method.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller