This useful idiocy is full of lazy generalizations easily demolished by exceptions:

"The rich can use their connections to make money off the war in ways that the rest of us cannot."

--Polish, Czech, Yugoslav and Hungarian elites from 1938-45 somehow failed to get this memo. So did rich Germans in East Prussia in 1945.

"They can short the markets...invest in "opportunities".

--These two are polar opposites. Also, most fixed assets aren't securitized and shortable.

"the wealthy can start a war or shut it down"

--Plenty of rich Republicans were isolationists and viewed Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets in 1940-41. FDR goaded Japan into war and fought an undeclared anti-submarine war in the Atlantic against Germany anyway.

Henry Ford was against American entry into both world wars.

"There is a war in Ukraine become someone wants that war to be."

--Mr. Dunn never IDs that someone on the NATO side. But that someone on the Russian side is easy to ID. It's who launched the war: Vladimir Putin and his narcissistic megalomaniacal imperial dream of being the second coming of Peter the Great. No amount of evidence Putin's and Russia's collective Ukraine erasure obsession openly and genocidally expressed will convince Mr. Dunn. But Mr. Dunn, is a Chomskian Johnny one note who cannot fathom that once in a generation another empire shows up to make the usually criminal American empire look good by comparison. Like the German ark hunters in Raiders of the Lost Ark, he's looking in the wrong place when the obvious answer is staring him in the face.