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It might see a massive increase in nuclear warhead production and pointless vehicle production, but the US military will continue to decline. There aren't enough truly dedicated Trump supporters to refill what's been lost over the last 8 years, and we have a new set of veterans from Afghanistan to preach the pointlessness of war and the fact the US government will not provide you practically any support once you're used up to stall or eliminate new recruits.
The fact Trump's destroying the VA and has already indefinitely paused GI bill payouts just adds to that fire, where not even shitty but 'safe' benefits are not guaranteed.
No matter how far down the LLM rabbit hole the government goes you can't sustain a war without a massive amount of soldiers. The US doesn't have that anymore.