You don't need to explain to me how the real world works, I'm ver well aware that almost every single war & conflict has been over natural resources. But this is not the 15th century anymore, wars nowdays destroy natural resources, agricultural capacties ecologies. You have to have some thwarted malicious thinking to believe that the ability to use force is somehow a reinfocrcement of a nation's economy, especially in the age of nuclear weapons.
It's like saying North Korea is an economic power because they are able to threaten the rest of the world into providing them with vital goods & energy. That's the "trade", after the investment into nuclear missles, the nation now reaps the revenues. Yet the country has little industrial & agricultural base, the population is starving & employment is near nonexistent outside of the armed forces.
