Neocons want war with any country that doesn’t want to revolve in the U.S. orbit and chooses to go its own way. From Pepe Escobar at sputnikglobe.com:

© AFP 2023 / CNS
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian “old friend of China” Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with Zhou Enlai in 1971, preparing Nixon’s 1972 visit to China.
The Mr. Kissinger Goes to Beijing saga was an “unofficial”, individual attempt to try to mend increasingly fractious Sino-American relations. He was not representing the current American administration.
Doubling down on failure, then again they want America burned to the ground by any means necessary.
A humiliating defeat in a three front WAR will deliver it.
That is why the rainbow bathhouse military has been reduced down to what it is.