Yes I know its not a "short read", but when compared to the vast swathes of information, and hours of time spent accumulating it, its certainly a tldr qualifier.
I'm confused. Are you saying that wars don't stimulate the economy?
Yep. People think of wars as high energy, high efficiency events. Mostly because movies and history tends to focus on big exciting things like infantry engagements or naval battles or production runs where a factory produces 50 aircraft in a day or something.
Most of the time though, that's not what's happening. The infantry are sitting in a barracks because the artillery ran out of shells again, the navy doesn't have enough fuel to leave port and the factory ran out of ball bearings because the ship bringing them in got torpedoed.
Same in the civilian economy, wars are marked by shortages and idleness. It's also interesting from a climate change perspective: WW2 resulted in an enormous dip in man made carbon emissions, lower even than the great depression, but for some reason that didn't effect temperatures.
Also the Rothschild ransom. I don't think that had anything to do with the war. It was just Germany's decision to destroy the remnant of corporate fuvkery while also getting something to pay back the debt from essentially nothing.
Maybe. The rothchilds are easily vindictive enough to send two goy nations to war over their royalty being threatened. I think the real cause of the war was mixed signals being given by the allies: They were constantly letting hitler away with reclaiming former Germany territory and even instituted it as a policy position at one point (push him easy so he's a soviet problem). I think he went into Silesia genuinely thinking they'd back down and let him make Prussia great again.
Broc_Liath 0 points 2.2 years ago
Yep. People think of wars as high energy, high efficiency events. Mostly because movies and history tends to focus on big exciting things like infantry engagements or naval battles or production runs where a factory produces 50 aircraft in a day or something.
Most of the time though, that's not what's happening. The infantry are sitting in a barracks because the artillery ran out of shells again, the navy doesn't have enough fuel to leave port and the factory ran out of ball bearings because the ship bringing them in got torpedoed.
Same in the civilian economy, wars are marked by shortages and idleness. It's also interesting from a climate change perspective: WW2 resulted in an enormous dip in man made carbon emissions, lower even than the great depression, but for some reason that didn't effect temperatures.
Maybe. The rothchilds are easily vindictive enough to send two goy nations to war over their royalty being threatened. I think the real cause of the war was mixed signals being given by the allies: They were constantly letting hitler away with reclaiming former Germany territory and even instituted it as a policy position at one point (push him easy so he's a soviet problem). I think he went into Silesia genuinely thinking they'd back down and let him make Prussia great again.