We spend a trillion dollars every year which is funneled into giant scam machines that price gouge the hell out of us.
Fact of the matter is that countries with nationalized military production move faster, advance faster, and they're catching up all the time if not moving past us and our bloated antiquated Military Industrial Complex.
Eisenhower warned us. And history has proven him right.
That exact type of suicidal calculus is what we're best at. Or at least well practiced at. Just look at how we wield sanctions like a cleaver. We've abused them so much that it wouldn't be a lie to say the US is a major contributor to the success of BRICS. We engineered the conditions that made a financial system outside the realm of the petrodollar not only possible, but necessary.