Quote from: RE on Jan 23, 2024, 05:04 PMI presume that is Pearl Harbor?  Why do you think the Japanese bombed there?

Because they needed the Pacific Fleet gone in order to steal oil and materials from their neighbors. Sort of like Hitler, except in Asia. But money wasn't why America was in the war. It just chose not to sell stuff. Important stuff, but they chose to not sell stuff they were perfectly allowed to not sell. There was no more requirement that the US sell things they don't want to to the Japanese then there was for us to sell nuclear weapons to China after 1945. An economic decision, both scenarios. Money involved in both, no requirement it leads to wars. So money probably isn't the overriding factor. The Chinese haven't blown up any American military bases in Asia for us embargoing them going on 75+ years.   

Quote from: RESaying it "starts" with money doesn't refer to an event. 

Well, that is a caveat after the original claim. Which is why absolute claims are dicey in terms of accuracy. But they sound definitive and cool.

Quote from: REWhat I mean is that the root cause is money, which is a proxy for resources.  So another way to say it is all wars are resource wars.
RE

And the root cause of money, whether it causes some things, but not necessarily others, is because bipedal carbon based lifeforms suck. There is the common denominator for you. It isn't as though money is the be all and end all...when American Indians were migrating out of Western Canada and headed down ultimately to the American Soutwest they were happily murdering and killing for better lands and water all along the way.

Do you think it was all because of wampum?