No one earned anything from these wars
Ford, General Motors, Messerschmitt, IBM, Rolls Royce, Boeing, Northrop, Grumman, Lockheed, Mitsubishi, Winchester, Krupps, Bath Iron Works, Seagram, John Pierpont Morgan and Goldman Sachs all made a killing during WWII. Plenty more companies stand to make a killing from any other war that pops up, no matter its scale.
seems the only rational thought in this topic.
but to add to the list. all the 'aid' NGO's profit alot too. they just have to spend the money on management fee's before year end to declare no unspend cashflow reserves to be declared 'non-profit'.
as for other posts comments.
A war would never be advocated by citizens of the country which means today if a country decides to go for a war for no good reasons, the government would lose it's own country itself.
thats not how it works.
citizens didnt need to advocate for/against war, for the US to invade the middle east in 2001.
citizens then did not abandon america. all that happened is the next election flipped from red to blue. and life carried on
citizens in developed democratic countries never abandon a country, they just flip to side with a different candidate.
the only time people abandon a country. is if the country they are in is getting bombed regularly to the point where bombs are hitting residential area's, not military targets. and where it is seen as not letting up or stopping any time soon where life cant just carry on as normal after the aftermath.
a future world war wont see governments declare that all citizens need to en-roll into the military(draft/conscription). instead it will be done by drones and long distance weaponry. by higher-ranked people causing damage but not having to risk their own lives.
targets wont be city centres of just residential. but instead area's near military bases.
EG if an enemy could wipe out a 50mile wide area. they'd take out the area which has a military base as that area has a high populous of military employees living within daily commute travel distance, rather than just some random residential city no where near a military base.
so if you were to 'prep' away from something. stay away from a daily commute distance of a military base.