If you are a Trotskyist the weird globalist thing is a part of the people that participate within it. You will not succeed unless you destroy everything that is against you. You also gain more power the more countries you manage to accumulate into the giant blob.
They aren't actual Trotskyites, they merely believe that their
neocon revolution/struggle is eternal, and that the entire world is destined become neocon; this is the way, in their view. It's a
perversion and
mockery of Trotsky's beliefs and methods. I think its hard for someone like Putin and others who grew up in the USSR to grasp this because its so ridiculous, and the only counter to it is-you guessed it-is to adapt Stalinism for the modern age and bury the ideological hatchet in the neocon's skulls
(I know, I know, couldn't resist).
I'm not sure this is entirely true either. Germany is absolutely getting destroyed and nearly everyone is getting poorer because of it. However, if you are someone tapped into the State Department's power structure you will be richly rewarded for this.
There are true believers of ideological movements but I think they are mostly in the mid to lower-levels of a given ideological movement.
It's
always about wealth and power, the only difference is how they go about it. Russia is more willing to use soft power whenever possible, and doesn't really like using force (the interval between 2014 and 2022 is a good example) whereas the US is almost always willing to use force if their preferred method (bribery) doesn't work. However, there is definitely
something missing regarding the US and its Ukraine policy; the government's behavior is baffling insofar how counterproductive its been. There seems to be only one explanation that makes sense, and that it's the Ukraine has kompromat on several US politicians and their families. We all know the Ukraine was the preferred playground of the debauched and degenerate (look no father than Hunter) and that our politicians were using their offspring and family members/acquaintances for no show jobs and other schemes. Biden and his family are not the only ones with something to hide, of that I'm convinced. Occam's Razor and all that; it will all come out, eventually.