Re:Eugene Debs Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against WWI, 100 ...
by icebraining on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:14AM
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I don't think you read my post carefully; I wrote "pre-WW1". I understand they did not profit from WW1 itself.
You wrote that wars being a profitable enterprise is a relatively new phenomenon that arose after WW1. What I'm saying is that pre-WW1 wars were already a profitable enterprise (for that aristocracy - exactly in terms of extra land, etc), and that WW1 only changed who profited from them.
You wrote that wars being a profitable enterprise is a relatively new phenomenon that arose after WW1. What I'm saying is that pre-WW1 wars were already a profitable enterprise (for that aristocracy - exactly in terms of extra land, etc), and that WW1 only changed who profited from them.