[sourcepluck]

I'm unsure what you think it's a list of. It fits in because populations don't like wars, and have to be lied into them. War is very good for business, so we get wars. Bigger ones like Ukraine and Gaza, and small multi-decade ones like in various parts of the Middle East and Africa.

Worrying now about how my comment reads to U.S. readers, so I'll say explicitly - there was not meant to be a partisan slant towards either of the two absolutely terrible mainstream U.S. parties.

[immibis]

It's confusing because the Ukraine war was obviously not started for any reason like this. The Ukraine war wasn't started for the USA to profit and nobody on the western side (including Ukraine itself) was lied to to allow it to happen.

The USA was keeping Ukraine in a perpetual state of not quite winning for reasons like this (the longer the war goes on the more money defense contractors make) but it's got nothing to do with the reason the war happened.