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And the reason we can get away with military violence is because of financialized violence. They're interconnected.

For instance, we destabilize regions by bombing them, but we also destabilize them by giving financial support (and often also military support) to opposition parties and terrorist groups who then carry out the violence for us. We also destabilize regions by trapping them in debt, and that debt is partially enforced by military violence, but partially enforced by SWIFT banking and NGO aid organizations and IMF loans and the almighty petrodollar that backs it all up.

It's a snake eating its own ass. Where the financial warfare ends and the literal warfare begins is impossible to distinguish.