weapons, they celebrated this in the early 19 # 0s. they announced wars would never have a real finale. there would never be a big victor because there would never be a real destructive war like world war ii ever again because they knew if the united states fought an all out war with russia, the economies would all be tied together and it would pull all of us down. instead of blowing each other up and destroying the whole planet, they would just destroy every economy. so now the whole world would have to come to the table and negotiate. what they didn t understand was, what happens if somebody creates a cdo? out of just greed? what happens if people just started racking up bills that they couldn t afford? what would happen if one giant country or even one small country like europe, like greece