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.
So because some leftoid nutjobs misuse the word “investment” it should not be used? As a guy whose career was doing infrastructure “investments” (project management in the energy indusry), you sound loopy.
This Ukraine business is a war.
The US military hardware, the industrial base for it, the R&D and training institutions behind it, all of that, are investments.