[exikyut]

Well said.

But now I wonder: if this is just so much smoke, mirrors and rose-tinted narratives of potentiality... when will the bubble pop? And what might cause that? And what might the pop (or maybe explosion) look like?

My curiosity is mostly just idle/morbid musing - this seems much like watching a moth encounter a candle.

[ppf]

I see two scenarios - the US military running out of money, or the F35 becoming necessary against an existential threat. I don't see either of those happing to the mainland US anytime soon. I'm just pissed that my own country is wasting endless money on this absurd boondoggle, where it represents a significantly larger fraction of our GDP.

[jacobush]

I guess nothing special at all, just the next big project.