5 minutes on facebook being force-fed mesopotamian alien conspiracies is all you'll need to experience to fully understand just how BADLY they need some kind of intelligence for their content/advertising targeting, artificial or not...
answer: people who solve every problem with war tend to advocate preparing for war... this would include re-implementing all our supply chains currently residing in the coutries we, imagined or not, see ourselves going to war with...
Say what you will about salt consumption, but my wife suffered thyroid issues until we added a shaker of iodized salt back into our kitchen/eating area.