The Danny WBD episode with nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu and Fictitious has some fire content in it. Particularly loved your citation, Alex, of the way America finances war has changed due to the public having less skin in the game (the only people who do now are the families and friends of those maimed or killed in war).

I think I've recommended him before, but Andrew Bachevic (a Reagan era US Army general) makes the same argument, that financing war rather than taxing leads to forever conflicts and misadventures.