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Don’t forget somebody has to pay for all the reconstruction that follows.

For the US at least, over the last 110 years or so, every war we’ve been in was initially strongly opposed by the populace. Most (modern) wars are the result of relatively small groups of elites working to create the conditions in which a peaceful populace will be ok with war.

If Russia was gone, the US has a host of “enemies” to replace them with. Additionally, when you have such control over the world economy, it’s very easy to create conditions that create new enemies.