So the present administration is pursuing a surge in military spending, and cuts in non-defense spending, including to the EPA.
We do know that the Pentagon in particular is a leaky sieve. It has been declared as un-auditable, and it is likely that billions are disappearing into various holes, never to be seen again. The military is already the largest in the world, and completely riddled with corruption and ridiculous boondoggles, including jets, ocean cruisers, and targeting systems that don't work. And of course the U.S. is heavily reliant on these very boondoggles, as it has sought to reproduce the old maritime dominance that built the British Empire, adding air power to that equation of course.
Wars are indeed stimulative, but stimulative to what? What happens to a capital buildup that steadily destroys itself, and destroys its own supply chains, as it is marshaled? There is a good reason that the history of revolutions includes protracted wars as triggering points.
And there is the matter of small-scale nukes.
The surface of the moon is quite the look, and perhaps soon the earth can try this look for itself?
