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The US defense establishment does a great job of pushing the idea that America is weak.
My favorite story goes back to the Reagan administration. The Gipper really needed a way to make the Soviets look powerful, but by any standard the US was miles ahead.
Then they came up with a new measure that put the soviets on top. American missiles were much smaller than their Soviet counterparts, the same way a modern bullet is much smaller than a rock hurled from a sling. "Throw weight" measured the size of Soviet missiles; the chicken hawks could scare Congress with tales of how big the enemy weapons were.
"Another percentage point of the GDP bro, please, I promise we'll be conquered by the Russkies if we don't spend the nation's prosperity on weapons we'll never use ๐ญ"