Bingo. Only a wide-eyed statist would ask "why do we fight all these wars we can't win". Uh, we're winning them alright. The point, as you said, is to destabil

Bingo. Only a wide-eyed statist would ask "why do we fight all these wars we can't win". Uh, we're winning them alright. The point, as you said, is to destabilize some key regions so that a certain chosen territory can live off an oil monopoly and control pipelines across continents.