These deals / arrangements / affronts / conspiracies will continue as long as there are sums of money too large to say no to.

It's so unbelievable obvious at this point that the Pentagon, and everything like it across the globe, needs a deprecation plan. We don't need these massive states anymore for security or regularity; we can communicate around the world at the speed of light and bypass their notions of how we're supposed to relate to one another.

Enough is enough. Spin down the nukes. Bring home the ships. Send the money back.