Your analysis, @Ctesiphon, does not fall entirely flat, as it does acknowledge points of potential contradiction as it progresses. However, are you certain that you have really studied history and economics? There’s a huge difference between particular capitalists benefitting from war and the assertion that you have maintained, that capitalism itself needs war. Correlation does not prove causation, of course; but you should know that the rate of international militarized violence has decreased, in an approximately proportional inverse relationship, with the rise of democratic capitalism.