This note brought back memories of pulling into the parking lot of our old rail yard-facing detachment building and seeing train tracks as far as the eye could see, full of rail cars loaded with military vehicles waiting to be put onto ships and sent on a "peacekeeping mission." I can only imagine what it must have been like for actual combat operations like Afghanistan and Iraq.

The amount of fossil fuels expended by militaries before the first shot is even fired must be gargantuan. Environmentalists who go radio silent on the subject of war are hypocrites. And as you said, fake money makes it all possible.