For TPTB, killing people is the more important than anything else.

It don't matter which countries win or how is the stock market. As long as people are being killed, it's good enough for them. Few hundreds here, few thousands there, it's fine for them. They are not in a hurry. All they need is an excuse. No matter if it's a good excuse or a bad one.

What is Bush's excuse for killing? Obama's excuse? Egypt's president? Syria's president? Ukraine's president? They are capable of killing their own people even without the help from other countries.

Excuse is the easiest thing to find. The point is to kill. No matter how. War is not necessary to kill people. War takes too much effort and planning. Mass klling can be done even without the victims realizing it.