Oddbean

Imo, it started in 1944 at Bretton Woods, albeit with a long and variable lag as our elderly monetary shamans are apt to say. It was a stupid fucking agreement that was bound to end in tears and the blood of innocents. How fucking stupid you ask? Fucking Keynes opposed it FOR valid reasons that have all be proven correct. GN fam

Victor Davis Hanson, Second World Wars interview with Peter Robinson: PR: Why is there a plural in the title? VDH: ...One is that, from 1939, when Germany divided up Poland with the Soviet Union, until... April of '41 - there was a Polish war, there was a Norwegian war, there was a Danish war, a low country war, there was a French war the blitz, there was a Yugoslav war, there was a Greek war. And all of those together weren't called the second world war. They were seen as isolated border blitzkriegs... And then something weird happened. In 1941 Germany... invaded its de facto ally the Soviet Union... Japan bombed Pearl Harbor... suddenly these border wars where nobody really knew what they were became the Second World War.

Ehh, sure maybe. The singular World War started in December 1913, with the passage of a certain US law legalizing the largest cartel in human history, comprised of the richest titans of capitalism in the world (who, to their credit, did enable and implement the Industrial Revolution). 6 months later "World War 1" begins. But really, all we've had between then and now are a series of tenuous ceasefires, hinging on a continued trust in a physically unsustainable existence for our species... Fiat. Now that we have tools to allow people to, not only escape that cartels supremely oppressive systems, but actually provide the potential to bankrupt the greedy cartels minions and inflict costs on their evils against others... I think the World War might actually end in my lifetime, or at least my childrens. Lots of pain to go in the process though, much of it is seemingly imminent. Keep yourself alert and aware of our situation, today. Stay vigilant, but also, stay VIBRANT! nostr:nevent1qqsr6q4688723rql6ygssmwhrawxspusdj7nz9yhwaurt48m63w3hlspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyprj73q098hejm5j5xrt35eqluvqep2eqwyzukw4phsm302kdycpuqcyqqqqqqgfac45s