Wars impoverish.
The exception being times like the great depression, when a nation immune from invasion can prosper by devoting itself to producing war materials... as USA did in 1942.
But it needed to be "at war" before it could get the people to willingly retask for the economic stimulus. Unfortunately, that stimulus is the only thing that has kept the USA going, and out of a second depression era ... hence the 52% of budget for military and nearly nothing for infrastructure and common folk.
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