Wasn't a world war. Neither crusade lasted an entire century. Taxation had to fund it. Belligerents were paid in gold and bonused from the loot, not by hot money whose value is gained through dilution of the population's currency.
Also, were the crusades not a bankers war? Merchant banks started in medievel europe and took off once demand for credit rose dramatically to support the crusades. The Templars and the Hospitallers were literally King Henry II's bankers.
So yes, the crusades were banker's wars, and all wars are banker's wars. They fund it, they are not actively warring in it, and they profit from it. If you somehow are not a banker and you win a war without the bankers ' "assistance", you become the banker.
Qui bono? Bankers bono.
Wasn't a world war. Neither crusade lasted an entire century. Taxation had to fund it. Belligerents were paid in gold and bonused from the loot, not by hot money whose value is gained through dilution of the population's currency.
Also, were the crusades not a bankers war? Merchant banks started in medievel europe and took off once demand for credit rose dramatically to support the crusades. The Templars and the Hospitallers were literally King Henry II's bankers.
So yes, the crusades were banker's wars, and all wars are banker's wars. They fund it, they are not actively warring in it, and they profit from it. If you somehow are not a banker and you win a war without the bankers ' "assistance", you become the banker.
Qui bono? Bankers.
Wasn't a world war. Neither crusade lasted an entire century. Taxation had to fund it. Belligerents were paid in gold and bonused from the loot, not by hot money whose value is gained through dilution of the population. Also, were the crusades not a bankers war?
Merchant banks started in medievel europe and took off once demand for credit rose dramatically to support the war. The Templars and the Hospitallers were King Henry II's bankers.
So yes, the crusades were banker's wars, and all wars are banker's wars. They fund it, they are not actively warring in it, and they profit from it. If you somehow are not a banker and you win a war without the bankers, you become the banker. Qui bono? Bankers.