Trump's facing impeachment. Election is coming up. What better way to divert attention and make him look good. A war will "kill two birds with one stone".
If you are familiar with the Christian book of Revelations, it talks about a coming beast with great powers over the earth. The world worships it (looks up to it). If you don't have it's mark (approval), you cannot buy/sell. This sounds like the use of sanctions. The American empire is the most powerful nation right now. It s trying to force other nations under its control. Any nation not aligned with its ideology, it imposes sanctions so that country cannot buy/sell on the world market.
Not really a empire yet haven't conquer China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Russia, Greece, Spain, Italy, India, Africa, Phillipine, Iceland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK, and Brazil.
Only countries that U.S. took over and allied with were Hawaii, Japan, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, and France.