Oh, where do you start with that one?
The Potatoe Famine in Ireland, The highland clearance in Scotland, The campaigns in India, the rise of the British Empire, and that's only the Brits, then the Spanish conquest of South America, then the French, the Dutch, The Ottoman empire, The various Dynastys in China, The mongols, the Khans, they were all up to improve the pocket money and create a few new ways of making money.
Then. mustn't forget the arms trade, now that's a lucrative bundle of tricks, and the license to trade comes from the government... not as though they are turning a blind eye to it all. Bet they charge for the license.
Communism and facists, Amateurs, they only been at it a 100 years or more, the Capitalists have been there since time immemorial.
Hang on , who financed the Crusades and King John and all that lot, Don't talk to the Palenstinians about that one.
Wha about those people who build the 727, 737 and 747.. they build some tasty missiles when you get into trouble and their rocket launchers wooow and those cruise missiles, a million quid each and it's not even re-usable. I'd want my money back.