The supremacy is trying to go to “war” because conflict activates the military industrial complex’s most powerful profit engine.

War converts fear into guaranteed state demand for weapons, munitions, logistics, cyber systems, intelligence, and reconstruction contracts. 

But in a debt based system they cannot sustain total war for long. 

That is why under Trump his owners, 

the wars have been surgical, calibrated for maximum procurement and profit extraction without blowing up the sovereign balance sheet....