Here is an explanation given by Samael Aun Weor:
"Much has been said about the forthcoming Third World War, which–without the slightest doubt–will be atomic. There have been great political events, such as in the case of Cuba, but nevertheless the Third World war did not occur; yet, humanity waits with infinite terror for this dreadful catastrophe that we know they anticipate as inevitable. Oddly enough, in spite of the Cold War and other great political events, the Third World War has yet to occur. Wretched people continue to wait for this feared atomic war–many even long for it; thus, this is how humanity is.
Indeed, what truly happens is that wars have never been fought for ideologies; wars have always occurred due to commercial matters. The populaces, the middle classes, are not the ones who invent the wars; this has always been done by the economic industries of the powerful ones; therefore, wars are due to commercial problems. Yes, the powerful ones invent the wars. It is painful to see the wretched populaces being deceived by the monopoly-party of the powerful ones. Those gentlemen make the populace believe that they must fight on behalf of their “threatened mother country,” religion, on behalf of democracy, for the cause of the proletariat, etc., etc., etc. Thus, this is how the deceived populaces go to the slaughter house; that is all. Even the medieval wars, the Crusades, were wars for the commerce of spices; that was all. The powerful monopoly-parties deceived the populaces, making them think that they should fight against the Moors for the conquest of the Holy Sepulcher, for the Holy Land, for Christianity, etc. All of that was a deceit. The purpose of that war was the trade of spices; at that time, the European capitalists were interested in acquiring absolute control of all the spice markets.
World War II was also due to commercial matters. Hitler took his people to war because of financial matters. Germany needed to break through into international trade; the competition of markets was terrible, and Hitler–full of ambition– saw only the mistaken way of violence for his world-wide conquest. World War II in its depth was only a repetition of the First World War.
Understand that when these types of conflicts begin, the Third World War will then become a fact; in those days, the monopoly-parties will make the populaces believe that they must fight for democracy, for freedom, for Communism, for religion, for their motherland that is in danger, etc., etc., etc., and the wretched, deceived populaces will inevitably go to war.
Sadly, this is how wars have always occurred; millions of people die in order to enrich the few. Yes, the powerful ones of the Earth are the ones who take the populaces to war. Regrettably, those powerful ones are created by the same populaces; they are the living expression of the egotism of the populaces.
Likewise, it is very true that the populaces are the extension of the individual. Thus the evil, the egotism, the root of war, is within the individual; while the individual continues with their egotism, their ambitions, their hatred, their greed, inevitably the populaces will be likewise. So, the populaces will create their powerful leaders, their powerful heads, which will take them like oxen to the slaughter house, and that is all."
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