It always amazes me how cheap it is to buy politicians, as compared to how much spending they decide on.
I do think the EU should more heavily invest in bribing USA politicians, especially since it's been legalized. The ROI just seems amazing.
And I wish that I was being sarcastic, but I'm not. EU pro democracy bribes and dark money pac's could be a counter to authoritarian states their dark money/influence projects, helping out the embattled USA democracy. And when the USA fascists see that their pro democracy opponents are receiving as much/more money from slush funds, then they might be more open to the idea of making all bribery illegal again.
It's funny when some of this corruption in the US is brought to light, you envision these huge sums of money, secret bank accounts, etc. Then it's just some loser hiding 10k in gold bars under his bed or some shit.
Who pays for the added production? It's like you're arguing the US has more than enough with weapons it was going to replace anyways, then when that's not actually enough you're trying to make it seem like production is free, too.