@mark noble,
Your apparent desire to blame bankers over those who actually start the wars and commit the atrocities is interesting and likely reflects an underlying bias.
A banker who knowingly provides funds for a war of aggression has failed his test of human decency and morality, but it's a bit ludicrous to put all or the most of the blame for war on him and his ilk. You might as well assign the same level of blame to
anyone who sells equipment and goods of
any kind to an army (whether it is during times of peace or war) The same principle of "if not for them, no war" would apply.
I question your apparent assumptions that financing war is the most lucrative method of financing available to bankers, and that these "fat cats," because of their great wealth have the means to pull all the right strings to assure that war is a regular event.
It's pretty clear that ISIS required and received financial backing before its conquests allowed it to loot banks and sell oil on the black market, but that financing was coming from governments (or government controlled banks) as a form of protection money, not as a means to increase wealth.I doubt they expected a financial return on their "investment," if for no other reason than ISIS is probably not a reliable borrower when it comes to paying its financial debts.
Wherever Saddam Hussein got the money to back his invasion of Kuwait (primarily Iraqi oil revenue I would think) the goal, in part, was to loot an oil rich nation and steal it's ongoing oil revenue. He probably was able to pull it off without any direct financing from banks and if he had succeeded his need for banks in any further wars of aggression would have been limited even more.
The conspiracy theory of rich bankers (often rich
Jewish bankers) being behind every single significant man-made world event is as outlandish as most such theories.