> Some assets are prime, tho, and maintain their value even if they become untradeable. We used to solve that with war and duels and stuff, right? Don't we still? Petro dollar and all? I mean it looks way different but I think Europe has always appears to be supportive of the US bombing the middle east for the last 50 years or fighting communism or whatever is going on in Ukraine. >Money was our system for not having to fight to the death over every nice piece of real estate, pretty girl, or clean water source. Was it just money though? Because I also am not sure that's changed? The government just uses twitter now to claim something and then points an icbm at the nation's capital. I mean hell tariffs and embargoes are still used as leverage how many millennia has it been now? I mean maybe smaller communities aren't firing cannon balls into the nearest castle but that could be a feature of a small communities becoming world powers. I would think the only prime asset is still natural resources. What makes Ukraine and so much of Europe historically valuable is the land right? I mean that's what they always told us in school lol