It seems like every 10 years the US uses something to reassert it's foreign policy, maybe also followed by a financial crisis? In 1991 it finally succeeded screwing up the Soviet Union, shortly followed by the war in Yugoslavia. In 2001 they used 9/11 and the War on Terror to invade a host of countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. In 2008/2009 the subprime mortgage crisis triggered a global financial crisis, followed by the NATO intervention in Libya. Now they're using Trump's trade war, Covid and a chip/comodity shortage to stir up things with China. It makes one wonder if it isn't all intended and planned in advance, or if it just reacts when opportunity arises.