I think more generally it is a great example of this bias we have of taking high dimension, complex processes and reducing things to one or two variables. "The

I think more generally it is a great example of this bias we have of taking high dimension, complex processes and reducing things to one or two variables. "The stock market went down today because of X" We can't help ourselves even when we know this is a complete nonsensical over simplification. I can't imagine any war in the last 2-3k years only has two causal variables in reality.