Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine are all driven by the military industrial complex. Blackrock owns both all of the major defense contractors (Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics) and politicians on both sides. The anti-war left has been co-opted. And a fair but falling percentage of the electorate is co-opted by one of the political parties. The phenomenon where you can ask someone their opinion on one issue (abortion, Ukraine, LGBTQ, immigration, etc) and can accurately extrapolate their opinions on every other major political position.