It's easier and chaper to create an Other you fully control, such as "toxic masculinity" or "heteronormative" or "the patriarchy" or "racism",than to actually try to fight (doesn't have to mean war by any means, just a fight as in struggle between competitors) a real external Other. That Other might retaliate, might even win, and will act under its own control, not yours. Compare the US/Globalist stance towards Russia with the same gangs stance on the Saudi genocide in Yemen. Othering Russia is relatively harmless, it doesn't tick any of the triggers for the internal nominally controlled Others; confronting Saudi and treating them the way Russia is treated due to the state-sanctioned murder of over 300 000 civilians (not 'collateral damage', targeted strikes aimed at maximzing the death toll of civilians) would destroy US/Western economy overnight, and trigger a real race war in Europe, between moslems and everyone else. I.e: the Other would be out of control. Or for even more fun and games, compare and contrast US response to Israeli apartheid policies, racial/religious segregation and persecution, theft of land, occupation and so on, with how the US acted towards Serbia for less than 1/100 of what the israelis have been doing for decades. (Which is in no way support for the palestinians terrorist state, their backwards literally inbred culture, and religion.) Control. Create an inner enemy to control. If that inner enemy can be a defenceless group labelled WrongBadEvil, so much the better. It's the same in business: the company is taking it in every orifice? Blame the ground staff, lay off 10%, borrow against inventory to pay out dividends to shareholders and hope that kicks the stock upwards. At least the spartans, athenians and romans were honest about it. Foreigner? 2nd class, period. Which didn't prevent some who started as slave class to become heinously rich and important.