I realized modern discourse never talks about one geopolitical strategy - purposefully created weakness

So you know how in interviews you give a strategically selected weakness in case you are asked about it? Why wouldn't the same apply for nations.

Maybe some problems are never fixed or are created to focus rival resources on and stop them from noticing the real weakness or even having the budget to find them.

Example- Palestine is never set free so Iran has to forever focus on it meanwhile the Israelis already have the wall set up. It's a higher cost to Iran.

South China Sea. No country can claim the territory because all the other nearby nations would oppose it. Yet it also requires constant naval funding for any nation that wants to maintain its seashore sovereignty.

Proxy war in a weakened territory where you only invest enough in forces to require the rival to constantly expend more resources there.

BLM. Divides the country on racial lines. All rival nations try to fracture the race division further but don't realize at worst it becomes blacks vs everybody else in which case the economy continues to grow.

Territorial claims based on self defense. Russia says has to invade Ukraine because muh NATO too strong. Even Pakistan and Afghanistan (previous govt.) are NATO members. It literally doesn't give Ukraine any added ability to invade Russia. Only to defend itself incase of further invasion.

So what do you think are some other/more purposefully built/claimed weaknesses of nations around the world today?

Discuss