I think it's a lot more simple than that and America is also now around as much of a superpower as Russia in 1916.

What I believe is that if you want to see their actual motive, just take a look at the Cambodian Genocide of 1975 -1979.

The Short Version: Society falls into absolute Oblivion before they fall.

The long Version:

The dehumanizing and goalposts are very similar in nature and once Pol Pot was done with it Cambodia was completely regressive compared to Singapore or Thailand. You also have so much sufficiently traumatized people that you can't rebuild unless you have foreign aid.

And that's just the test run. Now imagine this happening worldwide, which means nobody is safe and you are on your own.

I think it's a lot more simple than that and America is also now around as much of a superpower as Russia in 1916.

What I believe is that if you want to see their actual motive, just take a look at the Cambodian Genocide of 1975 -1979.

The dehumanizing and goalposts are very similar in nature and once Pol Pot was done with it Cambodia was completely regressive compared to Singapore or Thailand. You also have so much sufficiently traumatized people that you can't rebuild unless you have foreign aid.

And that's just the test run. Now imagine this happening worldwide, which means nobody is safe and you are on your own.