Economic War

"...So what are some of the goals of economic warfare?

Well, when it comes to the United States, the goal is to induce big corporations (or even entire industries) to leave the U.S. and set up shop somewhere else. The idea is that the economic infrastructure of the United States will decline while the economic infrastructure of the "attacking nation" will be built up. The jobs and wealth creation that once were a benefit to America will now benefit someone else.

Another goal is to transfer wealth from the target country (the United States) to the attacking country. Each month the United States buys tens of billions of dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Each month we send them big chunks of our national wealth and they send us oil and cheap plastic trinkets which we greedily consume. As this continues month after month after month, the rest of the world is getting richer while the United States is becoming poorer.

In a desperate attempt to maintain our standard of living, our federal government, our state governments and even our local governments are going into insane amounts of debt. Debt is another tool of economic warfare. As we continue to borrow trillions of dollars from the rest of the world, the ability of the United States to exert power and control over those nations diminishes.

The eventual goal of waging economic warfare against the United States is to make us so impoverished and so far in debt that our entire financial system crashes. If the U.S. experiences a "financial armageddon", it will greatly reduce America's place in the world. It could ultimately lead to the collapse of the U.S. government. Other nations (or organizations) that wish to have more power would then be able to fill the void that would be created..."

at http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/economic-war