For the military complex for next year, a figure approaching almost 1000 billion dollars is requested to maintain 750 military bases in the world while many banks in the West are or will go bankrupt, while 100,000 young or older die every year from drug use, as a war lost every year.
This military complex will go more and more towards a self-destruction of the US.
The same thing happened with the Roman Empire where its huge military force was supported by non-Romans (who were ex-military in many landowners) who had to be paid punctually, leaving the finances of the state bloodless and when the money did not come more paid was the total collapse of the empire.
As has already rightly been repeated many times "The human being never learns his mistakes because it is always the same personal ambitions that prevail.