FACT; the west"s (2 inc. America) economy"s COULD NOT survive/continue without war(s). plenty of books on subject , if u should want to wade thru them . thou heavy going , scary reality, i"m afraid.
The death toll due to wars and conflicts through the ages
The Second World War: 50 million to 70 million (against a world population of 2 billion)
The First World War: 45 million to 65 million (against a world population of 1.6 billion)
Mongol conquests (1207-1472): 40 million to 60 million (against a world population of 400 million)
Chinese Revolution (756-763): 35 million to 40 million (against a world population of 200 million)
Qing dynasty conquest of the Ming Dynasty (1616-1632): 25 million (against a world population of 500 million)
Taiping Rebellion of China (1851-1864): 20 million to 30 million (against a world population of 1 billion)
Timur Conquest (1369-1405): 15 million to 20 million (against a world population of 400 million)
Dungan Revolt of China (1862-1877): 10 million (against a world population of 1 billion)
Thirty Years War (Holy Roman Empire; 1618-1648): 10-11 million
Russian Civil War (1917-1921): 9 million (against a world population of 1.6 billion)
Congo wars: 6-8 million
Yellow Turban War of China (184-205): 5-7 million
Napoleonic wars: 5-6 million
Vietnam War: 5 million
Polish-Lithuanian conflict (1655-1660): 3-4 million
French wars on religion (1562-1598): 3-4 million
Korean War: 3 million
Sudanese Civil War: 2 million
Crusades (1059-1291): 2 million
Shaka’s conquest of Africa (1816-1828): 2 million
Spanish Civil War: 400,000
Greek-Turkish War: 250,000
Stalin’s regime of Russia: 20 million
Middle East slave trade: 19 million
European slave trade: 18 million
British occupation of India: 15-17 million
European colonisation of the Americas: 10-20 million
■■■■ genocide: 10 million
Ukraine genocide: 10 million
Fall of the Roman Empire: 8 million
‘Killing Fields’ of Cambodia: 3 million
Bangladesh genocide: 3 million
Genocide of Germans after WWII: 3 million
Assyrian genocide: 1.5 million
Armenian genocide: 1 million
Rwanda genocide: 1 million
Greek genocide: 1 million
French occupation of Algeria: 1 million
Angola genocide: 550,000
Massacres in Zunghar Khanate, China: 500,000
Ustashe massacres of Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croats in Croatia: 500,000
Brazilian genocide of the Indians: 500,000
Sudan conflict: 500,000
Russian conquest of the Caucasus: 400,000
Darfur genocide: 400,000
West Papua genocide: 400,000
Abyssinian Conquest: 400,000
French Indochina War: 400,000
Indonesian Communist genocide: 400,000
Somalia genocide: 400,000
East Timor genocide: 300,000
Nanking genocide: 300,000
Idi Amin’s regime: 300,000
Guatemala genocide: 200,000
Iraq genocide: 200,000
Tito’s regime: 200,000
Guatemala conflict: 200,000
Bosnia genocide: 175,000
Hutu genocide in Burundi: 100,000
Masacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka: 100,000
Tutsi genocide in Burundi: 50,000
I thought we are supposed to learn from history…
I think that a state of war is the default position for mankind.If those folk,s mainly young men(breeding stock)did not die then where would they get their food from.