I could be wrong but I've always figured the reason we spend so much money is because keeping the world in check is what keeps us as the top superpower and thus why everyone trades for oil in dollars and thus why it's profitable. Like a simple spend money to make money situation but with more money laundering and pallets of cash that go unaccounted for.
A big part of it is also that the US is ludicrously corrupt and arms companies lobby. America buys tanks that end up being stored in fields and never used plus if the world police thing was the whole story then the fact that America has fucked up every military operation since ww2 would actually matter
I could be wrong but I've always figured the reason we spend so much money is because keeping the world in check is what keeps us as the top superpower and thus why everyone trades for oil in dollars and thus why it's profitable. Like a simple spend money to make money situation but with more money laundering and pallets of cash that go unaccounted for.
A big part of it is also that the US is ludicrously corrupt and arms companies lobby. America buys tanks that end up being stored in fields and never used plus if the world police thing was the whole story then the fact that America has fucked up every military operation since ww2 would actually matter