scratch a little Jing& John, read a little Chomsky, and you should find, not unlike WWII, and Iraq ; there is a formula to get your empire expanded.
and yes, it involves "making the economy screams", sanctions are war by any other means, "an extension of politics is war" ; when your target decides that your "sanctions" are intolerable and you "invade" or your elites financials fight theirs, then you have war.
Doesn't magically happen from a one time Ally Vlad nor Saddam, it why we have 3 letter agencies. I mean how naive do you really have to be, when the monopolar new "sun never sets empire" comes right out and tells you what they are doing, and the "free press" amplies the "unnamed sources" warmongering,
and the only answer is to send more stockpiles of weaponry to your local police or to the Comic, who were to believe is actually in-charge of decisions in his country. come on man, really ?
do I have to die in a nuclear winter for "human rights" and "fighting them over there so we don't have to here" BS ?