I think this "4D Chess" is just that conservatives have become a mixture of hateful and stupid, that you can't tell if they're doing something because they're stupid or because they're assholes.
I don't think Turmp is (wary of military action, he's made overtures about it with Venezuela multiple times, mostly because he's a bully and sees an opportunity where he thinks he can go bully them easily; meanwhile he's been told off of Syria by Putin, and I think they finally made it clear to him that military action against North Korea was not really a viable plan). Although he maybe should be these days, since him and the military leadership are not reading the same book let alone on the same page. And that might soon lead to them being in complete different libraries (with Turmp using the prison one, and our government adding some new info to the Library of Congress about dealing with traitorous administrations).
Which is insane, since war is about the easiest money making scheme there is (especially if you can go do war somewhere else that won't greatly affect you - like say, you don't have much real trade with a country - while fleecing the public to fund your war machine at home, it actually is viable; even better if you can turn it into a political weapon where you get people to keep voting for you just so you'll keep the arms money rolling in and providing jobs). Reagan pretty much enshrined it as a tentpole of the GOP. Not that Democrats have done much if anything to do something meaningful about it (and plenty of them I believe have partaken in the pork barrel politicing aspect of it).
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