We view these wars as isolated events due to our short lifespans. If you put the pieces together, it looks more like one ancient, continuous war that ebbs and flows.
I don't view the Allied Powers as having won the war so much as I view the Axis Powers lost. Project Paperclip was about transferring the true power. What ruled Germany took over the US.
Cold War wasn't involved, but still did involve most of the globe, which is why I count it.
Yep, the funding is what matters. The people who have the most to gain from war are always the people funding it and not fighting in it.
Antarctic is CRAZY last decade, the Google censorship is hilarious to watch happen in real time. They've edited so much stuff out that looking up the maps/images is such a blurry mess in places, lol.
Issue with Antarctica is, like you said, you need an open mind, and be willing to accept a lot of things called myth as possible, and a lot of things called facts as BS. Oil story makes no sense, so many places you can dig for oil that cost so much less.
Oda is connected to some ancient beings/aliens, IMO. Would not be surprised at all if Oda is an Alien. We'll get confirmation if Sandman gets abducted.
From what I've heard China has some very interesting mining tech the US hasn't managed to work out yet. Stuff that can more or less just pull minerals out of sediment. Like, point, click, gold comes out of the rock. Like the drilling equivalent of a Philosopher stone.
Would make a lot of sense for China to put their efforts into that, as, like you said, Russia has a TON of natural resources to work with.
Biggest issue both sides have in that they can't mentally handle the spiritual element to it. The US and China are full of people who really don't like the idea that they're "below" anyone. At the least, the non-human evil entities using Light like this understand what they're doing; corrupting reality for the sake of finite rule. They know they are false.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the human tyrants running the US and China have begun to realize how low they are on the cosmic totem pole and it scares the shit out of them. They thought they were intergalactic shit and could build space fleets to conquer the solar system, when their farts the sizes of sub-quarks.
Have you research the Emerald Tablet at all? Interests me that Bellamy brought up the "Emerald City", really hope we get to see it in One Piece.
Wouldn't be surprised if we get a global space defense force before 2030.