One reason the US sucks at winning wars despite its reputation is that a for-profit military system is as efficient and cost-effective as a for-profit healthcare system. Worse really, since trillions could never go unaccounted for in the Department of Health and Human Services.
It's a lot harder to win wars when your military exists to generate profits instead of win wars. So the USA's massively bloated military budget is not a great indication of how powerful its military actually is. They're quite literally not getting much bang for their buck.
The US empire's real might lies in its tactics of economic and financial manipulation, and even more in its unparallelled system of international narrative control. The way it uses Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the oligarchic media to manipulate public thought is unprecedented.
This is what I'm pointing to when I say people tend to overestimate the power of the US war machine and underestimate the power of the US propaganda machine.
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