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Originally Posted by Kizzy

I think modern war is a construct for power and the control of natural resources, it has nothing to do with religion or people or even money.

I completely agree, and I don't even think it's just modern war. It's pretty much every war throughout history. There's a heavy focus when it comes to WWII on Hitler's odd "quirks" involving a master race but, in truth, his main goal was to conquer Europe and use it as a staging area to then conquer the Americas (and presumably eventually the world). He wanted to control ALL of the resources and rebuild the world under one banner (his). It just so happened that he held many odd beliefs and, as his power started to grow, he decided to indulge those beliefs. In fact, I personally believe that is he hadn't been so distracted by his ethnic cleansing campaigns and his obsession with the paranormal, Germany probably would not have been defeated.

Anyway, got a bit sidetracked there, but these modern wars - like I was trying to say earlier, I don't think most of the people involved in these conflicts really comprehend what's going on. Even our own high level politicians in the west. I think they buy into the storyline as much as anyone else and they fully believe their role.

As for who the people directing the flow - the "scriptwriters" - are, it's also so difficult to understand. Sir Lancaster asked me earlier to explain "who" these people are, I think imagining that I was talking about some sort of Bond villain character sat in a bunker stroking a white cat, but it's not that. It's not one person or a group of people with any specific motivation. It's more like a tidal force of collective consciousness, made up of all sorts of individual motivations, and yes, at the end of the day it only ever comes down to "power".