But John Michael Greer posited that a likely way this empire end will be by military defeat, which may seem counterintuitive, but he points out that other nations don't use their military spending the way the US does, with decision dictated not by assessments of need by the military dogs, but by MIC lobbyists, and by enormous levels of acceptable fraud--from ordinary items charged at twenty times the normal price, to shrink wrapped pallets of $100 bills getting "lost" enroute to Iraq to the F35 plane that doesn't work well if it rains but still gets billions thrown at it.