Yes almost all policy making / war efforts are created from realpolitical or resource oriented goals. It's the old orders of power and the conglomeration of c

Yes almost all policy making / war efforts are created from realpolitical or resource oriented goals. It's the old orders of power and the conglomeration of corporate entities that actually create the shooting script for various events including the creation of a border wall. The identity politics or the thin veneer of hollywoodesque narratives above most especially foreign policy is just exactly that, fantasy, while it's the military-industrial complex that in reality drafts the plans together with PR companies. Look for example at military historian Gwynne Dyers's talk here from 2010 both foreshadowing the refugee crisis, Syrian War and the border wall all from climate extrapolation without the identity-smokescreen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY The whole border issue is extremely muddy though as it's not classically right-wing to protect the working classes from wage dumping by not letting millions of people in but has become a left-wing issue because class consciousness and economic policy has mostly been replaced with superficial identity based issues because they are allowed by the status quo. This is because they don't interfere with the increase in inequality and fall in real-wages happening in plane sight while pop-leftwingers are busy screaming about identity based issues (not that those aren't important). From a resource perspective one could argue that the ever more transnationally oriented elite couldn't give two f's about protecting the sovereignty of yesterdays empires and nation states - but i think the US is still seen as a very valuable asset because a somewhat stable country with a large middle class is still important in a global system of resource extraction and exploitation - and also as a buffer around the US military which in essence is just a mercenary army created to protect US corporate assets and interests. All in all, the border will be created no matter who is president because the plan has been laid out in military circles for decades , because climate change has never actually been tabu in the corporate intelligentsia as we also see in the Exxon papers from 50 years ago. It's all part of a plan to squeeze as much value out of the global capitalist ponzi scheme and protect US assets just up until everything turns into chaos. Exxon has known this together with most other elite wealth management entities - that is why the next step is border walls with machine guns and watchtowers, then a short balkanisation with feudal rule and mercenary armies protecting the elite before everything collapses and the private jets are pointed towards a new Antarctica or new Zealand bunkers. If this sounds conspiratorial look no further than to Jeff Bezos statement this week that his space travel efforts are very much because he knows we are headed for total collapse of earth ecosystems. Thiel, Bezos, Musk, the Rothhcild family, Saudi Aramco or whoever are all very much aware of the coming collapse and fragmentation - this is why they all invest heavily in "let's get of earth or into the ground" tech.