Gets kind of tough to wage war against Russia and China at the same time when you have crap like this going on at the home front.
Something tells me that we didn’t have these problems during WW2 and during most of the Cold War.
The enviro-whackos tried to use the least term and snowy plover to prevent us from doing Minuteman testing at Vandenberg in the 70's and 80's. Seems their nesting areas always became critical habitat coincidentally just after we would announce a timetable for a test launch.