Aside from any distractions, war is also a great way to expand state powers through "emergency acts."
Remember how Bush's handlers pushed the Patriot Act through after 9/11, no questions asked.
If there's a war in Ukraine, Biden's handlers will claim a need for expanded federal powers to clamp down on "domestic terrorism."
Similar to what Trudeau is now doing in Canada, claiming the truckers strike is an "emergency" that requires the freezing of bank accounts.
Now that the Vaccine enthusiasm is waning since it appears to not prevent people from getting Covids, Big Pharma is loosing stock market lustre. Now is the time to crank up war fears and loose the power of the Military Industrial Complex on Wall Street. I wonder how much more military hardware countries surrounding the current Russia will start buying if they were part of the old USSR and fear being nibbled to death like Ukraine?