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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Only by stretching "resource war" to the point it's meaningless.

Yes, every place that has people will have resources that can be taken when those resources are gone. But the people themselves also have economic value that is destroyed when they are killed, and many wars end in material losses for the aggressor. These "resource wars" mean destroying the wealth of someone else, where you can at best claim a remainder that is less than what you spent to destroy them.

The US invasion of Afghanistan was not profitable to the US state. The German extermination of Jews and Slavs was not profitable for the Germans. World War 1 was not profitable to any party.

Supremacy is far more important than resources. Violence by people who would rather suffer than see another prosper and grow more powerful than them.