I'm unsure what you think it's a list of. It fits in because populations don't like wars, and have to be lied into them. War is very good for business, so we get wars. Bigger ones like Ukraine and Gaza, and small multi-decade ones like in various parts of the Middle East and Africa.

Worrying now about how my comment reads to U.S. readers, so I'll say explicitly - there was not meant to be a partisan slant towards either of the two absolutely terrible mainstream U.S. parties.

- Revolving door: Hunter Biden's stint as Burisma board member.

- War profiteering: U.S. defense industry is doing great.

- War profiteering: https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toru...

The other side does it too, of course. The people in the trenches fight for Russian oligarchs or for Ukrainian oligarchs and Western companies.

Historically, it is interesting that WW1 stopped with German sailors realizing that they were being used and starting the Kiel mutiny.