If you took scorched earth out of the US, there wouldn’t be a US. It’s how it started and how it’s going: https://strategic-culture.org/news/2015/08/28/native-americans-and-us-scorched-earth-continuum/

They seem to have sabotaged the Russia-Ukraine grain deal, too, and they had no problem polluting the Ukrainian countryside with depleted uranium or littering it with cluster munitions.

I think you might be on to something.