Except that we no longer have an unlimited supply of budget dollars to keep "flowing for years or maybe even decades".
We are almost at "Game Over" for the "Forever War". And we are losing. We will need to do something else quite soon. For now, we still have choices. They get fewer with the passing of time.
Maybe we should just "kill all the enemies, win the war, and go home". Or maybe we had best not go to war at all for a few decades. I am open to suggestions that do not include what we are doing right now. That is not working.
It’s not working because that is the plan.
Make everywhere equally crappy.
Balkanize everywhere.
Homogeneous societies are a problem to elite globalist trash.