The Wasteland is a way to link thousands of Gas Towns together (...) to build stuff really, really fast. So fast that your biggest problem will be ideas.

This reads like a speech from Pete Hegseth.

"Let's do war! Hard! Let's build stuff! Stat!"

Build what? Fight for what?

"The hell if we know! Just get busy dropping bombs, or "stamps" or whatever! Faster!"

In the end, all that's left is, indeed, a wasteland.