War By Other Means

always starts with propaganda by other means,
as Edward Bernays knew, from the start of his hype
of  American consumerism and then the stock markets
to ever bigger booms, which were then followed
by the biggest worldwide crash on October 29th 1929.
This bust only lifted, and became a boom in the USA
when the world went Boom!! with World War II,
in September 1939, which America joined, two years later. 

But long before WW II, on the 17th of June 1930,
Republican president Herbert Hoover signed into U.S. law
the Smoot - Hawley Tariff Act which protected  America
from trade that America did not want, from all across the world,
whilst supressing trade between countries for years to come.

Fast forward to 2025 and Donald Trump wants to use tariffs
to reassert a new 'America first' policy, to 'reclaim from abroad'
jobs that Trump claims 'Should be American jobs',
as if American money should command greater patriotism 
towards it than other countries currencies should do for them,
when with the world being 'a market place' all currencies are the same,
dependent for reputation on the policies of the government behind them.

At least in America's wars start by means other than arms, unlike Putin's Russia. 

There wars start with over-egged readings of history, and the need
to hide from the population how much money only works for the ultra wealthy.