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Originally posted by Mike.Ockizard
Started to drift when he went to Hitler being an ok guy.
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars
Originally posted by Hopechest
I"m sure there are people that could list quite a few wars that have had nothing to do with bankers.
Sure some may be but I don't think its fair to say "all" wars are bankers wars.
The multiple starting dates for the war complicate efforts to describe the causes of U.S. entry. The United States became involved in the war for a number of reasons, and these evolved and shifted over time. Primarily, every American president regarded the enemy in Vietnam--the Vietminh; its 1960s successor, the National Liberation Front (NLF); and the government of North Vietnam, led by *Ho Chi Minh--as agents of global communism. U.S. policymakers, and most Americans, regarded communism as the antithesis of all they held dear. Communists scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end. In 1949, when the Communist Party came to power in China, Washington feared that Vietnam would become the next Asian domino. That was one reason for Truman's 1950 decision to give aid to the French who were fighting the Vietminh
Originally posted by Hopechest
reply to post by Mike.Ockizard
The further back in time you go the less you will see anything to do with banks involved in wars.
Also, what do you consider a war?
There have been many revolutions that did not have or were not guided by the banking industry.
What about the Civil War, that obviously was not about banking but expansion of slavery to the up and coming new States.
Kind of broad parameters you have laid out there.
Originally posted by Tuttle
reply to post by Mike.Ockizard
Thing is though, this is really just an evolution of how we as countries conduct wars, the vast majority of wars fought since the dawn of man were not instigated nor controlled by banks, they are now of course, but if we didnt have them you can be guaranteed, people would still, inevitably go to war.