Maintaining 20 divisions of the US Army (incl NG) is a “social experiment”?
5000+ Abrams tanks is a “social experiment”?
1000+ Patriot launchers is a “social experiment”?
These are capital assets. They should even be depreciated per GAAP (but aren’t).
It seems to me you want to fight with someone about something else, but in your bad mood you settle for biting at anyone within reach.
The word is “social engineering”
and yes, your word “investment” is used by leftists and statists to hide every manner of corrupt spending - it might be for more tanks, more bloated health-care bureaucracy, more union teachers teaching trans ideology.
They use it to cover all manner of sins. And yes, your Ukraine project falls into that domain.
May it end soon.