Snowstorm Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 First of all, thanks to all those who gave their input to this thread. It has been an interesting debate at this point. My own personal and educated opinion (as an economist among other things) is nearly every government in this world has been controlled by the the banking elite, regardless of what form (capitalist, socialist, fascist, communist, whatever) it publicly takes. Like Sea Monkey, I don't really have the time and energy to go deeply into that, but those with opposing views (or similar) are welcome to sound off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaMonkey Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 So Snow, assuming that is true, would you say, or could it have been that the "elite" saw fit to completely intertwine the world economies so as to make war economically inconceivable due to a domino collapse of "the system"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorm Posted March 21, 2010 Author Share Posted March 21, 2010 Sea Monkey, Not quite sure I understood the question clearly (of course it's early here rigth now and I'm half asleep as it is), but at the time of WWII, one could argue that most banking elites were probably afraid of Hitler and Stalin primarily because they were chaotic, uncontrollable individuals they could not reign in and were a threat to financial stability in their carefully managed business world. They recognized that as long as those two were in power and looking to seize other countries that had strategically important economic resources the rest of the world needed, their own plans for economic and financial control were in great peril. Most people would like to think we enter wars around the world to further democracy and other humanitarian reasons, but sadly this is a smoke screen most of the time. It's usually over resources 90-95 % of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaMonkey Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Can't say I disagree with the possibility of that premise. What I was referring to is more or less today's functioning system as a culmination of "the plan". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorm Posted March 21, 2010 Author Share Posted March 21, 2010 Sea Monkey, That is more or less correct. What is being used most of the time these days is war using economic blackmail. The "powers that be" as it is would prefer to use financial means as a way to settle all differences, now and in the future. Much of it can also happen out of the public view as well. Much more convenient and controlled that way. We (in the U.S.) are already fighting a bigger and growing economic war with China (and a few others as well) that is getting more dangerous with each passing month. Neither side though wants it to become a "hot war" for the very reason you just mentioned. On a side note, I would like to see economics used as a strategy in war games, although it might be a bit limited option in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Elliott Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 Ya also improved diplomacy and research Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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