People in government in the 90s made a good call, and we haven't done anything since then to ensure it actually played out, until the post WW2 world order was a

People in government in the 90s made a good call, and we haven't done anything since then to ensure it actually played out, until the post WW2 world order was already extremely unstable. We have had multiple rounds of "why are we paying for any of this?" In our federal government since then.