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Has one person, or small group of people, working in the shadows, set out to and succeeded in starting a major international war? Often in movies and TV we see some rogue spymaster or shadowy cartel of arms manufacturers doing so. Is there any truth to this?

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Has one person, or small group of people, working in the shadows, set out to and succeeded in starting a major international war? Often in movies and TV we see some rogue spymaster or shadowy cartel of arms manufacturers doing so. Is there any truth to this?	505