Compounding this intransigence in our foreign policy elite is the fact that we must maintain an overextended worldwide empire of military bases at tremendous cost. Besides the direct costs of this empire, the opportunity costs of not investing in our country’s healthcare, education, or climate mitigation, means we must all suffer for their hubris. This is simply unsustainable.
In other words, we push ourselves into a confrontation with a nuclear power, all in an attempt to prove that Mine Is Bigger Than Yours.
Am I the only person who thinks that is nutso?
Compounding this intransigence in our foreign policy elite is the fact that we must maintain an overextended worldwide empire of military bases at tremendous cost. Besides the direct costs of this empire, the opportunity costs of not investing in our country’s healthcare, education, or climate mitigation, means we must all suffer for their hubris. This is simply unsustainable.