Exactly.

So did Iran, in Iraq.

And the North Vietnamese.

The fact is, the MIC is really just the trophy wife of the banks. It burns through all that credit to create the public debt the banks need to function.

That they are utterly incompetent at actually winning wars is irrelevant. All the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish.

"Follow the money."

Though this fiasco looks like the bridge too far, as the dollar is looking to lose reserve status and all that debt will implode.

Debt doesn't matter.

Until it does.