Wars are being used to prevent an orderly shut down of a bankrupt oligarchic system and the emergence of a new order of mutually beneficial development.

Oct. 26—Russian President Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin on Oct. 25 with eight of Russia’s top religious leaders, representing the Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist faiths. Putin denounced the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, as well as the unconscionable Israeli response of destroying all of Gaza based on “the notorious principle of collective responsibility,” and delivered a very sharp warning to the entire world: “Further escalation of the [Israel-Palestine] crisis poses a risk of severe and highly dangerous and destructive consequences … [that] can spill far beyond the borders of the Middle East.”