Something the usual suspects here (and in media and government) either don't understand or purposely conflate. And given the track record, more likely the latter.
And I'll add: people like McConnell, Graham, Romney and most Democrats do not have the national interest at heart. IMHO, DC and its various apparati these days almost acts as a hostile foreign power with respect to the United States.
A lot of these neocons, warcons, etc... Would call Trump a Putin lover simply because he wanted America first policies. These so-called conservatives are not conservative and they don’t have America’s interests at heart, only war.
Reagan built up the military and yet used it sparingly and only when necessary and watched the old Soviet empire die. Bush and the rest of that gang immediately decided we paid for it and we are going to use this military for international reasons, not necessarily American strategic reasons and the borrow/tax spend for more war has been the norm ever since except for 2017-2021...