One day, after I had been studying military history and geopolitics already for some time, I learned a saying ”all wars are bankers’ wars”. The phrase was also heard from an American film of the same name in 2016. The rule has been working without exceptions for decades and even centuries to come, but then, a civil war broke out in Ukraine, which with its extraordinary geopolitical nature challenged even that age-old wisdom. In Donbass, it didn’t work so that the same hands fed both sides of the conflict, which made the war and its consequences unpredictable for all.