Because the elite leadership expects to end up on top. They know they're no match for the citizenry without outside help, so that's where they'll go.
2 for 2, and the crowd goes wild!
I used to call it the two dog theory... Goes like this. Bad dog lives in the river gorge and you gotta get to the other side. So you want to build a bridge, right? How do you sneak someone across the river gorge with the first rope? Toss in another dog and haul a$$ across the river before the dogs figure out who is trying to keep them fighting.
Moral of story? Everyone guard their OWN turf (national sovereignty) and the elite that will "guide us" can't get the rope across the river. Just yesterday Tony the sissyboy Blair was spouting on about eliminating "National Sovereignty" in the EU. Everyone "share and live in global harmony together gag " routine. Forget that there will be infighting and DISharmony so while we are busy fighting each other they can do what they want.
THAT is why we are having this decades/generations of war bs shoved up... uhhhh, down our throats. We could get it on in Afghanistan - Iraq - Iran - Saudi - Pakistan and the entire area would be full of Texaco refineries and Giffard-Hill plants in two years but nnnoooooooooooooooo, we gotta "brace ourselves" for "generations of war."
I think the only thing we need to brace ourselves for is grabbing the rifles. It's going to come to that or grabbing our collective ankles.
ps. My thanks to whomever came up with the "sissyboy" bit. It was not me but if a shoe ever fit somebody, that name fits TB.