Today Pope Francis denounced war as “madness” in a moving homily delivered at Redipuglia, at a vast monument to the dead of the First World War located in northeasternmost Italy, a stone’s throw from the Slovenian border. The pontiff did not mince words:
“Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep … Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction … War is irrational; its only plan is to bring destruction: it seeks to grow by destroying … Greed, intolerance, the lust for power. These motives underlie the decision to go to war and they are too often justified by an ideology.”
From the XX Committee.
Read more at The Isonzo and the Madness of War | The XX Committee.
Or ideology is used as a smokescreen for greed and lust for power.
This article from The Conversation is relevant:
https://theconversation.com/my-fellow-americans-the-familiar-sound-of-american-belligerence-31631
Read “The Untold History of the United States” by Oliver Stone.