I lived most of my life in the US, and my first career was in your aerospace industry - I was a metrology engineer for many defense contractors. I had to change careers due to the “peace dividend”.
Most US spending post 1991 was not oriented towards Russia. It was “terror” and now its China.
US infrastructure is crumbling not because you dont spend money, which you do, more than anyone, but because you have accumulated a vast collection of leeches to suck it up before it ever gets to buying a bulldozer. And this I know really well. Ask me about headcount breakdown on gas pipeline work. And why its so.
Lets see, what was that $1.2 Trillion “Infrastructure” bill of 2021 all about? Nobody seems to bother looking into it.
First post of yours where we are mostly in agreement... except you seem to think that NATO doesn’t likewise have a sponge-like bureaucracy suctioning up wealth like a vacuum and wanting more of it. It’s not just NATO for me however... I’m opposed to all Wilsonian style organizations.. including that vampire the EU... the useless UN... I want people to ‘come back home and concentrate on their local community... I’d prefer to see all utopian organizations through the rear-view mirror.
“ US infrastructure is crumbling not because you dont spend money, which you do, more than anyone, but because you have accumulated a vast collection of leeches to suck it up before it ever gets to buying a bulldozer.”
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Can’t argue with that. And, sadly, it may be even worse than you think and it’s pervasive across much of America’s economy.