> That's like saying the US independence war was only a power struggle between France and the UK It's not at all the same. Your example is from the ages of mon

> That's like saying the US independence war was only a power struggle between France and the UK It's not at all the same. Your example is from the ages of monarchies fighting each other through open warfare for control of land, trade routes, and slaves. Now we live in the ages of obscure plutocrats playing a tug of war to control lucrative energy markets using discrete paramilitary tactics (CIA activities) and tight media control (MSM fear-mongering, sock puppets, 'grass-root' campains...) to rally the masses behind them.