We can’t afford to do things like infrastructure because we spend all our money on massive overkill naval (etc.) superiority. If these “fears” are founded at all, it could only be due to us making the blunder of “fighting the last war” and wasting trillions of dollars on the wrong tech (e.g. going all-in on aircraft carriers that are alarmingly vulnerable to modern missile attacks), not failing to budget [way more than] enough money to begin with.
We can’t afford to do things like infrastructure because we spend all our money on massive overkill naval (etc.) superiority. If these “fears” are founded at all, it could only be due to us making the blunder of “fighting the last war” and wasting trillions of dollars on the wrong tech (e.g. going all-in on aircraft carriers that are alarmingly vulnerable to modern missile attacks), not failing to budget [way more than] enough money to begin with.