The key is that there is little to no destruction. Destruction looks like [0], what you see on the pictures from Kiev is a minor annoyance and can be fixed with

The key is that there is little to no destruction. Destruction looks like [0], what you see on the pictures from Kiev is a minor annoyance and can be fixed within a few days. Burning old car tires might not be the ecologically best way to dispose of them, but as long as it is limited to a short period of time, it likely does less harm than a single day of people commuting to work by car in a given metropolitan area. Oh, and regarding your apparently main point that destruction cannot bring wealth: If destruction results in large-scale investments in the right areas (think Marshall Plan), it can bring an enormous amount of wealth in a very short time. [0] http://img.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop108305768/8378729649-ci3x2l-w620/Wie-der-Krieg-ins-Rheinland-kam.jpg http://img.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop108305768/83787296...