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> this looks more like predictable economic arithmetic working itself out than a conspiracy.

Fighting wars for the profit of Brittish bankers is a classic conspiracy, ye.

A firesale of communal property is a bad deal. What is even the market value of a factory or mine that might end up on the other side of the front line? How does the market price in a total write off of the asset?

If a government makes great powers profit from war revaging it, the country is up for a really bad time. One might speculate about the order of events here.

Cutting a deal with the capital is cutting a deal with the devil. It is just a more politically palatable form of surrendering but with the working class still forced into the trenches.