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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36430)8/8/2002 9:26:45 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>Marriage and economic opportunity is the way to prevent terrorism from getting out of hand.<<

Most of the time, the power of the purse and the pocketbook is sufficient to keep nations in check. Read the first few chapters of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. International bankers do wield a great deal of power and they mostly *don't* like wars because wars are traumatic to economies.

One of the main reasons the Soviet experiment faltered was that international bankers refused to invest there, for very good reasons. The first Five Year Plan was an all-out effort to generate goods (wheat, mostly) to sell abroad in order to obtain capital in order to build factories.

Hitler financed rearmament by stealing money from Jews, then invading countries and looting their banks. The Germans were almost broke by the time the war ended.

Look at how much power the IMF has. Countries that want to borrow money have to toe the line. Of course, Iraq isn't terribly susceptible because of all the oil money.

Re: why did we not attack Stalin first? It is a little known fact that the US did send some troops via Alaska into Siberia during the Russian Revolution. The Brits, under Churchill, also some sent troops to fight against the Russian Revolution.

This was immediately after WWI and there was no strong desire to keep fighting.

When a country is very large, and very powerful, you'd better have a very good reason to attack it, otherwise, it's safer to just rely on the balance of power.
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