Originally Posted by
Asturias56
But that wasn't economic reasons - it was done by one side as they were trying to distract the population who were screaming for them to resign due to gross mismanagement and it was claimed back by another govt who couldn't survive another
PR disaster
"Wars are primarily done for economic reasons," is I'm afraid , a classic Marxist statement made to absolve the population for getting all fired up ("Nach Paris!" "We've got the ships, we've got the guns" etc etc)
It has been the classic capitalist or pseudo capitalist countrys not the Marxists one who have started most wars.
The selling of oil in other than US $, opening a bank that is a threat to Western ones or a threat to nationalise ill gotten gains has a predictable response.