The phrase "WWII ended the Great Depression" was popular after the war as a reason to advocate for more government spending. Many thought as soon as the government spending was diminished after the war, the Depression would come back, but the economy only grew faster.
However, debt levels went through the roof, and the war broke the British Empire.
War abroad is a great way to distract the public from turmoil at home, but it does not solve debt issues. Even if, say, how the South repudiated debts to Northern banks like they did after secession, the South, if it had won, was be deeply in debt in other ways. By analogy, if the US went to war with China and repudiated all the debts owed them, it would still be deeper in debt from the war spending after it was all said and done.
War, if it happens, will be to distract, or to make people fall into an "us vs. them" mode like the War on Terror, which dictators will use to their own effects. Debt has little to do with it.
In the big scheme of things, you're correct about the goals.
To quote Archbishop Vigano, here is what is going on:
What we are witnessing at this crucial stage is the disappearance of the pretexts that until now have been used to justify “social achievements” – democracy, freedom of opinion and worship, respect for minorities, etc. – and at the same time the arrogant manifestation of the true motives of the criminal elite that usurps authority in the State and in the Church: the irreconcilability between, on the one hand, the Christian model of society in which Our Lord Jesus Christ reigns in the civil and religious spheres to lead us freely to do Good and thus make us sharers in eternal beatitude, and on the other the dystopian model of society in which the tyranny of Satan imposes chaos and rebellion in order to compel us, violating our freedom, into doing evil and damning us for eternity.
The phrase "WWII ended the Great Depression" was popular after the war as a reason to advocate for more government spending. Many thought as soon as the government spending was diminished after the war, the Depression would come back, but the economy only grew faster.
However, debt levels went through the roof, and the war broke the British Empire.
War abroad is a great way to distract the public from turmoil at home, but it does not solve debt issues. Even if, say, how the South repudiated debts to Northern banks like they did after secession, the South, if it had won, was be deeply in debt in other ways. By analogy, if the US went to war with China and repudiated all the debts owed them, it would still be deeper in debt from the war spending after it was all said and done.
War, if it happens, will be to distract, or to make people fall into an "us vs. them" mode like the War on Terror, which dictators will use to their own effects. Debt has little to do with it.
In the big scheme of things, you're correct about the goals.
To quote Archbishop Vigano, here is what is going on:
What we are witnessing at this crucial stage is the disappearance of the pretexts that until now have been used to justify “social achievements” – democracy, freedom of opinion and worship, respect for minorities, etc. – and at the same time the arrogant manifestation of the true motives of the criminal elite that usurps authority in the State and in the Church: the irreconcilability between, on the one hand, the Christian model of society in which Our Lord Jesus Christ reigns in the civil and religious spheres to lead us freely to do Good and thus make us sharers in eternal beatitude, and on the other the dystopian model of society in which the tyranny of Satan imposes chaos and rebellion in order to compel us, violating our freedom, into doing evil and damning us for eternity.