Back in the day there were big infrastructure projects, the interstate highway system, nuclear fission reactors, USA was once a leader in rail, but now it seems USA can’t build any infrastructure at all, HDI is lowering, life expectancy is not as high as most other OECD countries. Anyone know what happened to cause this?
i was under the impression that this was more of a reshuffle to reprioritize the americas & the pacific over europe & africa, as evidenced by mandates for the eu countries to dramatically increase their own spending on american weaponry and sacrificing ukraine as enticement to warm up relations with russia, with the aim of isolating china.
also: usaid’s resources are still a thing, they’re also being reshuffled under the purview of the fbi to focus on china, the americas, and cointellpro-ing american citizens again.
when the first american drone strike hits a wedding party for a drug cartel kingpin’s god daughter and it “collatoral damages” hundreds of mexicans lives; it’ll become the most publicly visible sign that this is the american empire’s version of “crossing the rubicon”.