> we usually profit from wars

That's a huge lie, if 'we' is to be read as 'Americans' and not 'the 1%'.

78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck [0].

'We' - taxpayers - 'spent' trillions and trillions of dollars on war in the middle east. What was the return on investment? We could have housed every American, eliminated student debt, gone 100% clean energy, and ended world hunger; with change left over.

0 - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa...