No strategy. No Senate approval, Hegseth estimates that IT has already cost $37.5 billion, but you-can-easily-add a 50% margin of error since he is a liar and you get a figure of $60 billion.
And Donnie-Boy is suddenly demanding $87 billion to pursue his personal hate affair with Iran. If the Senate gives the green light, it will be a further proof of the legislative branch’s complicity in undermining American democracy in favor of a strong authoritarian regime. Actually a tyranny, we have to call a spade a spade.
The separation of powers is not enough to guarantee democracy : it also requires branches of government willing to compete each other. It’s a dynamic system. When one of them (or two, if I include the Supreme doormat) abdicates its role, all by itself without any pressure, the entire system collapses.
Senate is committing suicide while Rome is burning and Nero is bombing.