We’ve moved beyond late stage capitalism and are now in end stage, palliative capitalism.
That’s where the proletariat are simultaneously deprived of survivable income and also punished for not spending enough to keep capitalism working.
This country has barely any industry outside of sales and the land. We either sell the land, or dig it up and sell it.
The wording is something else.
Ensuring they can defend themselves… against another state defending itself from them?
Whatever. It’s a mess that’s gonna get worse and worse.