American King Kong and the Law of the Jungle

... reaction of a high or low-ranking official to an emerging problem is an attempt to fill it with money, without burdening himself with unnecessary thoughts about how the problem arose or how many additional costs its resolution entails. The approval of the military budget for the fiscal year 2020 by the Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress (which began on October 1) looks like a typical example of such a bureaucratic approach. The Congressmen, of course, are not officials, but politicians. But the ...