Uhmm. You shouldn't play Russian Roulette with an automatic. Just saying.

The problem for empire is money is a contract, not a commodity. So the asset has to be backed by a debt.

The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

So while the politicians and press are the prostitutes of the banks, the military industrial complex is their trophy wife.

And they got to keep the trophy wife happy. She gets all the wars and toys she wants and no one gets to point out she is clueless how this grand strategy thingy all works, because the politicians are just hired to bend over, not think.