/sci/ - Science & Math

I am usually confident in the fact that our entire government is a puppet show, perhaps to a fault. However, when I try to actually apply this idea to what is actually going on, I can never figure out what the "people in the shadows" actually want.

What is going on in these here debt talks? Is it a contingency that legitimately want to reform the United States spending, or are all the leaders secretly just trying to bankrupt the U.S.?

I feel that if they were really worried about debt problems, they wouldn't be waging three wars.

So, what the fuck is going on then?