Unlike healthcare & housing, keeping the treat machine flowing keeps surplus value flowing in the direction of capitalists. A healthy, housed populace only means reduced leverage over the generators of surplus value. If other countries were allowed to develop peacefully, there’d be no cheap treats to distract from the piss poor healthcare & housing.

“Oh yeah? Well, the Houthis are gonna find the fuck out why we don’t have free healthcare! It’s because we need to spend millions of dollars per missile, and that missile doesn’t even do what it’s meant to do most of the time, and is vulnerable to missiles/drones that are either too good (hypersonic), or not good individually but can be made in the thousands, which is what all our enemies use! Take that, terrorists!”