$14 trillion in war in the last 30 years.
That’s only $50,000 for every man woman and child in the country.
We spent at least that much in just the past decade. Remember there’s not only the formal defense budget but also additional war appropriations as well as warmaking activities in departments outside of DoD to account for.
So figure 50k per capita in basically in a decade; a decade in which the per capita income is not much more than half that number. In other words, the average American spent 20% of his productive efforts over the past decade to do absolutely nothing other than pay for war - we’re not even including food and clothing and housing before the war spend here.