Dial back through history, and the same themes repeat. Power struggles over money/taxation, and the ability to acquire critical resources, are usually the crux of the issues. It may seem a mystery to those not sufficiently engaged, but once understood, it's really not that difficult.
I mean, compared to designing mach x weapons, satellites, complex AI programs, etc, the sh!t is trivial. That's why Trump says they aren't that smart. Rather, they are merely clever psychopaths. Poster boy Stroke is a prime example; a nut like that can go far in a corrupt system.
Earlier researchers only traced it back 400 years. Then some to Rome. But satan has been playing this gig a VERY long time.
speaking of the War of !812-when looking at the role of MI6 in the attempted coup against PDJT-there is a very interesting 187 symmetry between 09/11/2001 (an attempted “kill shot” on America) and 09/11/1814-the final decisive battle of the War of 1812-the defeat of the British
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburgh
One of those things that makes you go hmmmm now how about that “special relationship....”