All true, but I don't believe that's the point. The point being to create enough pretext to enable a new round of international tensions resulting in a new round of "defense investments" paid for by tax donkeys (Support Da TROOPZ), and thus guarantee the War Profiteer Full Employment Act of 2019.
Also, does anyone doubt that when Trump gets his scrotum caught in a wringer that he won't start a hot war somewhere just to change the subject? What do you think Bolton and Pompeo are for?
Remember the Maine.
Well, between the trade sanctions with the Chinese and the oil sanctions against Iran, the shadow goobermint here in the FSoA of the MIC is certainly doing all they can to provoke a good hardware consumptive hot war
SOMEWHERE. Profits and stock value at Boeing are seriously down these days you know. A new order for some overpriced malfunctioning fighter jets would do wonders for their bottom line.
The thing these folks don't seem to grasp is that it's easier & cheaper to destroy this hardware than to build it, and as fast as they can build anything new it will end up just as fast at the bottom of Davey Jones Locker. They're working from an old playbook circa WWII, when the FSoA had a clear technological lead and was overflowing with oil under the ground in TX & OK that needed to be burned up. Neither of those things is true anymore and if/when a hot war does get started, the Big Ass Military of the FSoA will quickly be shown to be a Paper Tiger.
Which would essentially leave them only one option,
GO NUKE with Ballistic Missiles! If the ships are going down, they can't use a navy to deliver hardware and troops to overseas theaters to project force. If they do that though, the Ruskies and Chinese have Ballistic Missiles too which they would about certainly fire off if the MIC goes that rogue. Thus you get
Global Thermonuclear War, and of course, nobody wins.
Shall we play a game?How about a nice game of Chess to resolve these battles?
RE