On One of the Key Functions of the Present-Day U.S. Security State Being to Prevent Russia and China from Forming an Alliance and, gee, What a Shock, They're Failing at it Miserably

So, yeah, maybe pouring $100,000,000,000 into a land dispute between two corrosive countries halfway around the world (one of which has nuclear weapons) where we have jack-shit strategic interests wasn't the grandest of policies after all. When you peel away at it, I'm saying.