You raise many good points, and the alcoholic dependence is a good analogy for the addiction profiteers have to war. I have no interest in profits taken from suffering. I rather revile them that do.

It is my hope that war that has fed such profits is ended, and honest commerce and trade, that builds our nations up instead becomes the profitable business of the nations of the world.

As to the weakness that has afflicted the US, the majority of Americans have not sought nor welcome any of it, and this is why Trump was welcomed by so much of America. Despite my intransigence and suspicion of Trump, no less than of any other politician, I find it difficult to restrain my giddiness at the uncovering of egregious fraud and waste in USAID and the profligate bureaucracies that have too long fed kickbacks to vile criminals, and hope sincerely these agencies can be cut to the barest of bones, that the insane debts can be put behind us.

One of the signal achievements Putin managed was paying down Russia's national debt, and I would welcome that same achievement if it can be done in America.

It is also my hope that the leadership of China, and the rest of the world, sees more benefit from a revitalized engine of industry America has been and can be, than to seek to profit from war and conflict. It is my expectation that this will be the best option, that war is not desirable for anyone but the worst pathological powers in the world, and will not be forthcoming.

Peace brings true dividends to nations and peoples vastly more profitable than the profits of war that destroy and degrade them. We are perched on a precipice of good fortune, if we but seek to profit one another in commerce and industry instead of allowing bansksters to pick our flesh from our dead bones. Prospects of inconceivable wealth I have waxed on ad nauseum regarding are potential from the celestial resources awaiting our development, and have too long been left fallow instead of blessing civilization.