The U.S. military has turned into little more than a glorified but lethal jobs program.
Since the U.S. doesn’t do “socialism” but some degree of socialism is very useful to keep your population productive, the US government has decided to hide its socialism in the guise of the military instead of just having a normal jobs program and/or industrial policy.
If the U.S. were to actually run the military for defensive purposes right now half the states in the country would go bankrupt and it would hit a massive recession.
Fortunately within the past year or so the US has begun returning to actual industrial policy so hopefully it can now start shifting its military to focus on actual military ends rather than as a job works program.
Since the U.S. doesn’t do “socialism” but some degree of socialism is very useful to keep your population productive, the US government has decided to hide its socialism in the guise of the military instead of just having a normal jobs program and/or industrial policy.
If the U.S. were to actually run the military for defensive purposes right now half the states in the country would go bankrupt and it would hit a massive recession.
Fortunately within the past year or so the US has begun returning to actual industrial policy so hopefully it can now start shifting its military to focus on actual military ends rather than as a job works program.