And the Pink Elephant in the room is Greenland, and in the eyes of D.Trump its an easy
takeover target.
This is more in line with the thread title - rare earth minerals and the need to try and catch up with China and India.
With all the wars that the US has been funding for over a half a century, should've been pretty obvious that that's what they're after, that's why they continue waging wars on different parts of Middle East, because they have a lot of precious resources that the US desperately needs to keep up with the other superpower nations. This is pure capitalistic greed in full display, there's no person that has stand up to it yet because everyone that tried either got corrupted, blackmailed, or got a cut in the profits.
and also that military spending creates a lot towards a countries economic activity, but there
needs to be a demand to continue production, the demand obviously comes from war.