It feels like more and more of our economy is becoming an explicit engine for manufacturing weapons to export abroad at a loss. Like we're just subsidizing people killing each other overseas, and not even with a particularly high success rate.

I do wonder if we'll ever see a Congress that gridlocks hard enough during a downturn to legit bankrupt one of the major defense contractors. Boeing certainly got close for a minute there, back in 2020. And if we lose a company like Boeing, we lose the ability to make advanced aircraft, which will set us back quite badly on a national stage.