I recall reading someone's missive that in order to solve problems of war (assuming someone actually wanted peace), it's imperative to destroy another nation just enough (which is war) that they have no choice but to join the American financial system.
The additional contradiction is that this would imply a merging of nations, which antithetical to supposed American values, and even contradicts other noble-sounding missives.
Paradoxes don't exist in reality. This juggling of contradictions isn't a failure of 5GW methods so much as it is a failure to set attainable objectives. That, if anything, is the first and most obvious goal of even somewhat decent leadership.
Not so rando thought for the day.
Ancient wisdom gave us eye for eye, tooth for tooth, which US founders adopted as the underpinning of justice.
This notion of justice is a notion of equalization. Render unto every man according to his works, is another way of putting it.
Yet today's modern pretenders perceive like-for-like responses as a unidirectional act of war.
And that, I believe, is a sign of an aging empire fracturing under the weight of its own presumptive "principles" that are nothing more than over ambitious self interest, along with an inflated perception of value on the value of perception.
The Catholic Church is another institution that made the same mistake. They were once the bastion of art and science for humanity, and now it's best described as: nobody really cares.