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I don't know. Why did the aggressor nations invade (since 2000):

Afghanistan

Anjouan

Crimea

Gambia

Georgia

Iraq

Lebanon

Somalia

Syria

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Where is North Korea not on this list? Right...they have nuclear weapons. The surefire way of preventing invasion & war. That's why the Great War isn't going to happen again. If WWIII does happen it's game over folks.

Nuclear weapons are the reason why the competing global powers have found new ways to compete and project power abroad. Global wars have mostly moved from being violence-based to being fought via propaganda and economics. It probably mirrors the way smaller communities moved from physical to intellectual competition.

Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk and Crimea were captured by Russia because Ukraine signed contract with Shell to develop natural gas field near Donetsk, and because dispute with Romania about natural field in Black Sea was ended, so Gasprom owners worried about competition at European market.

Syria - to stop natural gas pipeline from Qatar’s north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU. Gasprom owners are worried again.

Afghanistan, Iraq - because of 9/11.

Funny how I always heard that Crimea & Syria were about people and terrorists, respectively, whereas Afghanistan and Iraq were about oil.

Maybe all of these were really about resources?

When a mosquito will bite you into nose, you will crush it with power enough to crush all mosquitoes in the house and more. How many resources you can extract from mosquitoes?

Stop repeat the Russian propaganda. USA now is the largest oil producer in the world, so give me reason.

The oil of these nations is extremely valuable for the US not to consume them but to acquire exploration rights with ridiculous terms, generating a huge amount of revenue, propping the US economy up keeping up the American dream.

The US has Saudi Arabia and the gulf countries on it's side, Libya in shambles, Venezuela and Iran isolated. That gives the US a lot of power on the energy market.

So there it is, control over oil = money + power.

What else people start wars for?

Spent trillions to steal billions? Numbers does not match.

Does if you realize the horizon for politicians in US is at most 4 years long; after that, it's most likely going to be someone else's problem.

What truth is there to the participation of the world banking system tends to lead to this sort of war ?

>>Maybe all of these were really about resources?

Of course? Though nuts always exist, but as whole do you seriously think people fight for Jesus, Allah or Karl Marx?

Its always Oil, Gold, Wheat or Highway taxes or some thing like that.

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