It’s bad enough if this was just a group of billionaires in an ivory tower. But you will find this “insulating” objective in every defense department of every nation. We are living in highly cooperative world today but the rampant inequality in the world makes the profiteers feel threatened, so they armor up. This is not about solipsistic isolation, it‘s about walls and fences and soldiers and weapons, it‘s about rank and caste, nationality and race, us vs. them.