You don’t blow things up and kill people in the age of social media where everything can be instantly filmed and uploaded. Killing and people dying because of your country’s bomb is very bad PR.

If you want to destroy a country without bombing its businesses and infrastructure to get the country to submit (like WWI and WWII), then you buy off the press, social media platforms, and politicians. Then they help to make it seem like sending factories overseas is good for the country. So jobs leave and now people can’t afford what they used to, there are less and jobs and more people looking for work so the jobs that are still there the pay stagnants. There are no taxes to help repair the roads (also nice if you can get the said country to start a pointless and expensive war with another country that they can’t possibly win. Most of the tax money will go their instead of infrastructure and schools in their country)

Sound familiar?