"But your Marxist/materialist worldview also ignores less tangible pieces of the puzzle:"
No it doesn't. The more you claim to know about marxism only reveals how little you actually know and that is usually wrong. The "intangibles" are the prejudices the MSM and far right war mongers use to try and whip up the population into supporting a catostrophic war in the interests of the nation based oligarchy.
"The economic considerations relate to gas, but also trade generally"
So we agree. War is economic. Follow the logic. War is trade war by military means. It results from the fact that the all-encompassing modern global economy is still divided into competing nation states. A global economy still mired in 18th century political forms which resulted in two world wars and threatens a WW3.
