A US military budget approaching a trillion-dollars a year, 800 US bases overseas, 4000 nuclear warhead stockpile. To maintain access to resources.
Geeze, go green. It's a whole lot cheaper. And safer for the world.
Who is insisting on the (massive) expansion of what you described? From outward appearance, Vlad is posturing as a catalyst for it
and his U.S. surrogates campaigned and bloviated with promises to accomplish the expansion.