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In essence, career military officers are like any other ambitious, success driven individuals. However, unlike business people like Trump who achieve their highs every time they doa deal, military careerists never get an ego "win" unless there is a war/conflict that utilizes all their skills, tools and leadership.
To a certain extent, this helps explain in part why the DoD is so ambivalent about protecting the border. That is, they are geared up for difficult match-ups vs China or Russia, not a bunch of penniless peasants. In other words, no one is going to be promoted doing a good job patrolling the board and interdicting primitive invaders.
However, HOWEVER, where the long term implications of unfettered illegal immigration hit home dovetails perfectly with the globalists 16 year plan. In order for an elite few to lord it over a subservient slave class, they must necessarily destroy the economic basis by which creates free men. But, the real impact on military capability results in the same problems which afflicted the USSR: lower IQ peasants toiling in a low(ish) tech economy are no match for a highly sophisticated adversary.
And who might that adversary be? Why, the Chinese of course. So, put yourself in the position of a military careerist: if you were to allow the 16 year plan to succeed, you are eventually going to have your ass kicked by an advanced Chinese force that will run circles around you. Now, who wants to experience that type of life/career ending situation?
The solution of course was to pre-emptively destroy the enemy's attempt at subverting the entire US cultural/legal/political/economic system. Now, I'll admit there are some patriotic hard-ons who may still embrace the quaint notion of 'duty & honor'. But, knowing human nature, the real motivating force is self-interest. If you're MIC, you want the newest, latest & greatest. Low IQ peasants aren't going to deliver it for the US anymore than they delivered for their home country in Mexico.
Lastly, I still assert that the Chinese are the actual ones behind the deep state actors. Someone has a very long term plan to restore what they see as a 500 year Western usurpation, a mere blink of an eye for a culture that's been around for 5,000 years.