There are many acts of aggression, like economic warfare, that can force another person / organisation / nation to feel compelled to retaliate in kind, if they can, and if they cannot, by brute force.

Unless you use it as a good, for example in jewellery, or decorations, or in electrical components, Gold is not a good. In most cases it is a service or 'instrument'. An instrument of speculation, that

Did you realise that the U.K would have to work full time, for 9 years, for NOTHING just to pay back its current national and private debts? This is WORSE than during the Weimar Republic, which lead to