Politics 9.

War.

So, the economic machine rolls along, and the pecking order of "winners", and "losers", starts to sort itself out, and your loser countries start to get a bit antsy, and if this isn't ironed over, things fester, and get infected, and eventually, a country goes postal.

And then , something goes boom, and then you've got yourself a war.

Sprinkle religion into that powder keg, and you've got an even bigger mess.

At least, that's how it goes in the super power era.

Little country nips at America's heels, America stomps on it.

But, before the rise of the superpower, it was pretty much country to country bitch slapping at each other over well...land. Resources. That's what they mostly boil down to even now. Some country, or just its leaders, feel like they don't have enough stuff, so, some fucker's gotta die. So, we trade as much as we can with countries so they have enough stuff, so no fuckers have to die. And, it turns out, we share a common human bond in that they want the same stupid bullshit we do. Hence the economics of bullshit, and our standing as a global economic superpower. Course, lot of our buddy-countries we trade with now needed a little killing on first. So, maybe countries are like the kill-bots from Futurama, y'know, they hit their kill limit, then they shut down. Maybe humans in general are like that. They'll go docile, and play nice, but only after they've got all their killing in. Maybe some pill has to be invented.... But, until then, some fucker somewhere's gotta die. The evidence of this, is some fucker somewhere is dying. The mass graves don't lie. And course, you got your military cemeteries, they're always well stocked. Killing people. The solution to our most intractable problems since.....forever.