The result was a stab in the heart for the oligarchy; not because of the loss of some financial gains, but because the revolution had dared to challenge the global objectives and balance of power of the geopolitical operators.  Their monopoly was challenged.

As a result of the challenge a direct aggression war was fought by the British Empire to take its colonies back, the so-called War of Independence.  While the British Empire lost that war on the battle field, it won the war on its home turf of global policy manipulations.  Its imposition of Free Trade as part of the peace accord, bankrupted the new nation, which in turn declared its financial independence as well, and then prospered as no nation has prospered before.  Still, the Empire continued is attack, and won once more with the passing of the Specie Resumption Act that turned the nation's financial control back into the hands of London, the financial empire of the world.  From this point on the nation experienced a steady state of economic and social devolution, which was later intensified by the "Post Industrial Society" doctrine, a renewal of the Freed Trade weapon and corresponding debt building measures, and the floating exchange rate financial system that has flooded the world with many tens of trillions of dollars worth of fictitious capital instruments that have no backing in real assets but to which the real wealth of the world is linked and has become vulnerable to disintegrate.

The evident function of these modern games is to achieve what had not been achieved with the more brutal methods of direct warfare that the oligarchy resorted to twice in this century to prevent the re-emergence of a new renaissance in Europe.  By the late 19th century the oligarchy felt itself threatened again by its old arch enemy, the spirit of a new Renaissance that was in the early stages of unfolding in central Europe resulting from a prolonged period of peace and stable alliances between the nations.  In the face of this unfolding cultural and economic progress, the slave trading and dope peddling British Empire (which totally represented the oligarchy at this time) became more and more despised among the nations of central Europe, and saw itself gradually isolated from the rest of Europe which had achieved strong economic development gains.  Thus, the oligarchy's second attack on the spirit of the Renaissance began.  And again, this renewed attack against human development was launched on it's home turf, the geopolitical manipulation game, especially since any form of direct warfare was impossible anyway, on the required scale, for the lack of physical resources.  Thus the oligarchy reverted back to the weapon that the Venetian oligarchy had pioneered centuries earlier.  It reverted back to diplomacy, or more precisely, to thought manipulation, controlling attitudes and reactions in all the great houses of Europe.  Like in the Venetian days, the empire's secret service, which was modeled after that of Venice, became its biggest strength.  In fact, King Edward VII, himself, became the chief agent.

By applying the diplomacy weapon for thought control, the British oligarchy was able to break the peace in Europe by separating the great powers of Europe into two gigantic opposing camps.  Then they whipped up the winds of nationalism for which the empire had laid the groundwork earlier on.  With the stage thus set, they simply ignited the tinderbox with an act of terrorism committed by one of its agents and World War I was launched.  By the time the war ended, all the nations of continental Europe lay in ruins.  The possibility of a new Renaissance was pushed way out of the picture.

In dealing with wars, one must deal with their cause, if one wants to heal their effect.  Thus, one must distinguish two types of wars.  One type is that of a direct aggression, typically for some economic gain.  The second type is an induced war, created through mental manipulation and thought control such as the Thirty Years War, or World War I.  This type of war is typically one that engages those nations into mutual self-destruction that pose a threat to the empire.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche