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.
All governments have bureaucracies. From experience though, the US regulatory, legal, statutory, political (including both lobbyists and ngos) structure is vastly worse than most of Europe. Europe does government better.
German “green” bs outdoes you, but on the whole Euro government systems deliver much more bang for the buck. Have a look at per capita medical expenditures, for a big one.
The Euro problem is tha THEIR regulatory regimes suppress private investment, relative to the US.