Deathride

[rich]

"Mosier is arguing that World War II was fought for economics, not for
political or ideological reasons. That is not a new thesis, to be
sure, but his is a creative approach, holding that not only the
motivations but also the maneuvers of the war were almost entirely
economic in nature."

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/07/08/deathride_shatters_some_myths_about_hitler_stalin_and_world_war_ii/
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GR notes as such but Pynchon's mind was elsewhere, critiquing thru the
lens of WW2 an exploitative western (now mostly American post-war
foreign policy). However, I think the above notion is dangerous stuff
(for scholars) in the fact that the underpinnings of everything Hitler
did was ideological-based: essentially a rabid antisemitism and
bolshevism. It is hard for me to believe that historians can seriously
argue that the war was motivated solely for economic reasons. There
were economic reasons for war but they emerged from the Nazi's
ideological worldview.

In actual fact, one could argue that the Pacific War against Japan is
a better model for this theory.

Rich