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I feel like you're forgetting about Russia. Russia started the war for profit, Ukraine fights back for survival. Most wars are, in fact, started for profit - for one side anyway.
That's not a good argument, because set so wide you can argue every single thing in our lives and every other life on the planet is about profit.
Well yes. As opposed to what? No one is starting a war in another country for anything else. That's the thing, you say it's a war for survival, but that's one side of it. The other is, indeed, in it for the profit. Border war is profit, even most of the times when one side says it's for their security. Random land grab is profit. Religion, ethnic cleansing, is profit by influence - some will believe in it, but the ones in power usually don't - they just want the thing that's over there and they don't want others to control it. There are revolutions and wars of independence where people will fight back to free themselves from oppression in their own land, but historically, those are the minorities.
And no one starts a war because "somebody over there is being insane on their people or others and needs to be removed from power". Not now, not historically.
Yes they are starting for many things else like ideology, pride, hatred, religion,... There where supposedly even been ones for love and betrayal. That's not profit. If you want to play linguistics, maybe you can twist it all somehow into profit, but like I said, you can pretty much do that with everything.
So profit is not a good argument if you do that. There are many wars that were actually done for profit or at least prolonged because of profit. But the only way you can see Russian invasion of Ukraine in that way is to believe their most hard line propagandists. And I don't and neither should anyone.