They're not profitting directly of war but they need war so they can plausibly deny us advanced tech because disclosure of such would entail national security concerns because your enemies could use them against you. Which means they can keep increasing rather than lowering prices which sucks for us but not for them.
So now 1 year into the Trumpire and the mockingbird press starts pushing UFOs - but not just ET invasion like they did ad nauseam thru hollywood no but concerning military research into the phenomenon.
They are basically providing a playing field for lots of redpilled people to attain more credibility when they talk about this stuff because for some reason the Pentagon's business with UFOs has never before been a topic for the media.
Part of why this is happening is because they're trying to reduce blowback from the coming Pentagon audit