So un-Ayn Rand like. It's not money or business or economics only that drives the end result. It's "my country is great" emotion. Whether MAGA (Make America Great Again) or MACA / MARA (Make China / Russia great again)!
What are we doing while trying to make our country great again? Taiwan, Ukraine are being affected in trying to make our respective countries great. Sad, isn't it?
Norway, Holland, Belgium, UK, Spain, Portugal etc did the same thing few centuries back. Hitler did it 80 years back.
I guess the same thing may happen in future as well. Lebensraum seems to be crucial for man as it was for animals.
If i can't become uber wealthy by myself, i choose to get married to an Ambani. If my country can't become rich, I take over other countries. If I can't get enough votes in an election, i say that the other guy's votes belong to me, as Trump did.
