I find it hard to believe your comment is in good faith, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt. > Modern prosperity and modern market economies are defin

I find it hard to believe your comment is in good faith, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt. > Modern prosperity and modern market economies are definitely not based on centuries-gone colonial extractive empires All the wealth and resources plundered from colonies over centuries enabled the European powers to maintain power and more easily develop technologies on which this modern prosperity so relies. One entire continent, unimaginably wealthy in a broad variety of resources, was taken over just in the most recent history. > As for the military industrial complex, pray tell, of which country? Tangibly benefiting which countries Mostly the US today, benefitting primarily the US, and by proxy many of her allies. War is extremely profitable: taxpayer dollars pay for materiel which you immediately destroy, the demand/supply ratio is fantastic. The sustained violence guarantees access to the energy resources required to continue this strategy -- the rotten mess in the ME over the past near-century being just one of the more glaring examples.