Yes, we need a new consensus but I think the world around war on people and planet has been going on for some time and the plutocrats have been winning, at least in their sick minds. But war, more specifically, war debt, has been the oligarchies main money maker and is how they gained control of the governments, establishing central banks for them.

Are they mad enough to blow up the world or are they using that to maintain maximum fear and control of information (ala 1984) to stay in control? They've been ramping up the fear but they also control the money on both sides of the conflicts. War is used to take other nation's resources but also to drain our wealth to pay for it all going to their military industrial complex. Capitalism began as a French word, capitalisme, used to refer the system of war finance, or the practice of borrowing large amounts of money to fund the costs of war. monetaryalliance.org