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 Second and third layer analysis, and not wrong.  

If one’s willing to follow the money back to the beginning of Western civilization, then it makes sense to inquire into those who are sufficiently responsible for the manipulation of the money - the fountainhead of the violent permutations.

For it is those people, a decentralized ethnic network, who can be traced back through the ages - those who sit at the base layer of jingoistic social hierarchies, those who have corrupted the money, turning it to fiat- who are causally responsible for the large scale altercations that imperil humanity today…even if Homo sapiens are disposed to such violence.

Bitcoin will fix the incentives, but not necessarily the actions of furtive, fiat marauders, in a timely fashion.  Definitely not in time for your somber list of international casualties.