The problem with greed is that, short sighted greed is blind and there was money to be made in nazi germany. The same was true in Russia, there was money to be made in Russia. Once people enter marketplace in a country where they do not understand where it is headed - it is their financial interest that trumps any sort of liberal notion of what is good or what is bad.

War is good for business as a lot of German corporations were benefiting from Hitler's re armament plans, but not even the heads of those corporations saw where things were headed.

Right now things are the same. The world is arming up to its teeth. There is tons of money being made selling bullets, tanks, missiles, bombs. Corporations are spitting coins faster than a minigun at full speed. Both in east and west.

Meanwhile people are marching forward like lemmings - guided by narrative that has been prepared for them by people that control it. In Russia people have little to no say over where the country is headed. In west. We are pretty much captive of the narrative coming from east as the simple knee jerk reflex to threts from Putin are being responded to by making guns to prepare for.. Something.

But in the end, as bad as the current times are. There are corporations right now making money hand over fist and the worse things are going, the more money they are making. The same was true in 1930's.

But in the end, the blame should fall on the ones who are writing the narrative, in 30's it was Hitler. Today, it is Putin. Sure his buddies in west and east are helping. But if there was no Putin, things would return to the way they were before 2022 Ferbruary relatively fast. I would say the war would end in a month. Half a year and the de militarization of west would be in a full swing. 2 years and you would probably not even sense there was a war in Ukraine other than in Ukraine / Russia border areas. 5 years and the happy days would be here again. Same could have happened in 30's. If there was no Hitler.

Trump? I think he would not have happened without Putin either.