[Part 1 of 2] The US has lost the ability to produce the implements of war to win in Ukraine, and it is running low on what it needs to defend the homeland. At the same time, it's military is running out of recruits and the grift inside the MIC is so large that even with the biggest military budget in history, the country can hardly maintain its global footprint. What happened? Well, decades and decades of mismanagement and overreach are finally taking a toll that even a superpower can't ignore.