chapotraphouse

You're right. But in order to maintain its dying global hegemony, Amerikkka (the imperialist, settler-colonial, fascist, capitalist government) must prevent Russia from selling natural gas to the EU and must use Israel as a forward operating base to control the energy industries of the MENA countries. Otherwise dollar hegemony will end and then it won't be cheap to fix domestic problems anymore. So Amerikkkan "prosperity" is tied to American imperialism, and more and more of the discretionary and non-discretionary budget must be spent on maintaining that imperialism. The country is in a death spiral and the only way out is revolution. There's no redirecting the blood money to fixing the domestic wounds, because the value of the blood money itself is tied to the fact that it's used to bomb people instead of healing domestic wounds.