Today, Israel carried out an airstrike against the China-Iran railway, marking the first direct attack on a key strategic asset of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Well Netanjahu specifically has a strong incentive: as soon as the ceasefire started and the state of emergency ended, the trial against him resumed. He might avoid prison by lighting the world on fire.
But in general it’s to stablize ruling class power by mitigating crisis tendencies from inherent contradictions in capitalism. Classic imperialism (and fascism). Over-accumulation, overproduction, falling rate of profit - war helps with all of that. It helps materially by destroying value without cutting into profits, opening markets, stealing inputs, subjugating people for overexploitation, destroying competing productive capacity and preventing threats to imperial power. It also helps ideologically by legitimizing austerity, undermining democracy, inflation and increasing exploitation at home.
War is such an important way to temporarily dispell crisis tendencies or push them on someone else, that if US and Israel weren’t doing it, the other imperial core countries (like Europe) would need to do it or risk seeing the end of capitalism.
Well Netanjahu specifically has a strong incentive: as soon as the ceasefire started and the state of emergency ended, the trial against him resumed. He might avoid prison by lighting the world on fire.
But in general it’s to stablize ruling class power by mitigating crisis tendencies from inherent contradictions in capitalism. Classic imperialism (and fascism). Over-accumulation, overproduction, falling rate of profit - war helps with all of that. It helps materially by destroying value without cutting into profits, opening markets, stealing inputs, subjugating people for overexploitation, destroying competing productive capacity and preventing threats to imperial power. It also helps ideologically by legitimizing austerity, undermining democracy, inflation and increasing exploitation at home.
War is such an important way to temporarily dispell crisis tendencies or push them on someone else, that if US and Israel weren’t doing it, the other imperial core countries (like Europe) would need to do it or risk seeing the end of capitalism.