This is perfect reasoning imho, highlighting the dichotomy between governments intent on remaining hostile, competitive, with other governments, and the interests of humanity as a species.
The same dichotomy exists between all people, the for-profit economic system forces us to compete with one another with ever more bitterness, rather than collaborating, except where temporary collaboration might give some tribes over others some advantage by monopoly.
All of it, the relentless competition, is systemically unsustainable, fueled as it has to be by energy extracted from Earth, the only kind that can be scarcified and held to ransom, despite all humans needing at least 150 or so Joules of it per second, 24/7, just to survive, we should be ashamed where we grudge even that, of other humans, which is actually destruction by every definition, causing, again by every definition, the planetary rising temperature we are now seeing, with increasing frequency and ferocity of wildfires, New York at this moment engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires a thousand km away, for example.
Collaboration, is what is needed between the governments and all people to make the required switch of all people to energy which is not extracted from Earth, the only source of which is the sun, the closer we get to planetary disaster by any one of the many looming existential crises we see, including nuclear war which would tip us over the equilibrium sought by nature, the more we have to wonder whether any sense will be seen, before things finally do all go up in a puff of smoke, literally.
Your lament looks similar to mine, we are both despairing that all the money spent on "defence" of the respective countries of the world, is not actually defence, if it goes towards perpetuating the system of profit causing the misery which is now existential, and actually not any kind of progress, we have lost many of the previously attained technical icons of achievement, supersonic commercial air flight, the space shuttle, genuine public welfare, and we stand to lose much more, in fact everything in a race back into the dark ages, ending with a spent planet, much sooner than even profit driven science would have us believe.
Has no-one noticed yet, how much more difficult it is to make profit now, compared with thirty years ago?
Do they realise, those in power, that profit itself is dependent on availibilty of sources of extracted energy?
In other words, as the difficulty of extracting energy increases, the possibility of profit decreases accordingly?
I am hoping Ai might turn out to be key in providing a unifying force of logic which can't be denied or resisted.
I trust so anyway.
Sorry if this looks like irrelevant ranting in response to your piece, but actually it isn't, we actually have the same concerns, that the monies now spent on defence are not achieving any defence at all but actually the opposite, assuring our destruction as a species.
We saw what happened when the trillions you speak of was directed towards stimulus.
It actually wasn't bad, the only time we ever saw actual environmental recovery, confounding mainstream science, which had previously thought was impossible.
We also saw that the value of the currencies issued in greatest volumes made the most recovery in value in markets, whilst trading with the same money, oil prices went negative, again something the mainstream thought was impossible.
Right there we saw a demo, of solar stimulus in action, and it was incredibly good, even a kind of miracle, but mainstream has again swamped it since, with profit driven misinformation.
All this we know deep down and instinctively is true but still we don't seem to know what to do about it, what force could possibly align the full range of variables and human estimations, to put things right with nature.
To me it looks like Ai meets all of these requirements perfectly.
Why not just put it in charge, instead of trying to put our human limitations on it also?
To me it is the perfect grand regulator itself, the Grand controller of all things.
It could definitely do a much better job than humans, to regulate anything, including all of humanity.
Regulating it itself looks completely contradictory to the real human interests, the interests of the species, I think.