and you've not given me a single literary citation which means you either don't know which books best explain the world's financial markets in modernity or can't be bothered taking half the time it takes you to argue to list a few. no problem.
but you've misinterpreted speculation on my part for something it never was. i even offered the best, most classical, counterpoints to my own thought, which is the irrationality and disorganization of capital as removed from centralized planning. i was obviously looking for well informed opinions not for a pointless argument.
for a different thread probably but also see
https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/economy/arid-40891748.html
my point was the way you can use the war to wean the US and EU off Russian energy, you can also use it as a broader argument to wean the most advanced economies off the most polluting forms of consumption. i'm not saying it's an end to oil or gas, but that different states are in positions to transition at different speeds. on the other hand, the war has promoted a crisis in the cost of everything, or made that crisis worse than it was, and prompted a search for more sources of oil to cover states in the short-term. you're confusing "plan" with "use". i'm not saying people plan massive events in some dark room but that political classes, which represent the capitalist class, do use those events for their own ends which are often removed from the event itself.
i was quoting Milton Friedman in the "real or perceived" line some posts back.
https://www.thinkunthink.org/latest...isis-actual-or-perceived-produces-real-change
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