All of this plus the fact that most major CEOs probably had some hint that the cabal intended to destroy America sometime in the next decade or two. Why invest billions in manufacturing plants in a place you knew would be decimated both economically and physically before the plants were even fully paid off?
BTW, this is also why our infrastructure is a mess. It wasn't just to loot infrastructure funds for their own personal greed, but because they didn't see the point of building new infrastructure only to have it nuked a few years later.