In reality, Washington could not even take on Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time without going bankrupt.
And even that was in a time of relative national unity after 9 / 11, and before another two decades of deindustrialization and financialization of defence contractors, and when the brutal-but-realist Kissinger-acolyte PNAC crowd was running things, and when NATO was happy to join in on American adventurism. Everything is different now.
And even that was in a time of relative national unity after 9 / 11, and before another two decades of deindustrialization and financialization of defence contractors, and when the brutal-but-realist Kissinger-acolyte PNAC crowd was running things, and when NATO was happy to join in on American adventurism. Everything is different now.