Now you’ve got the context exactly right. Follow the money. The “nose” metaphor is real — the trail always leads somewhere if you keep tracing who profits. Wars, sanctions, regime changes, energy markets… none of it happens in a vacuum. When you track the financial incentives — oil flows, arms contracts, geopolitical trade routes — the story usually becomes a lot clearer.
The nose always knows.
And most dogma serves a master that isn’t God — because true spirituality has no price.