ABSTRACT
Britain's survival depended upon selling overpriced manufactured products, and losing those markets would collapse her economy. As Britain's "national interest" was at stake, she had signed agreements with France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and eventually Russia, all designed to contain Germany. The clash of interests in the Balkans between these competing imperial centers of capital led directly to World Wars I and II. The supporters and goals of fascism represent the antithesis of this treatise. Fascism would severely restrict rights for the masses; this treatise would expand them to full rights. However, the injustice to Germany in denying her equality in world trade was extreme and injustice breeds extremism. Financial warfare is a powerful weapon in trade wars. Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute and the Foreign Policy Institute, concurred that wars are extensions of trade wars. The chapter discusses Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and World War II.
