With all the accumulating news reports about the war activity going on right now (from Russia, Israel, and now America), I thought of the analysis I was reading and hearing about from Lyn Alden, about the relationship between 1) Fiat money (money that has value because the government says it does, not because it's backed by something like gold or silver), 2) National debt, and 3) War. I would summarize the analysis like - as long as the national debt continues to grow as it has over the past 100 years, and as long as money needs to be printed (fiat money = money by government order, not because it has value on its own), then war provides an excuse or a reason for more money to be printed. And in addition to the war being a human rights violation, cruel, sadistic, and psychotic, but then, 5-10 years after, everyone’s savings is devalued/debased.