from an outside perspective it sure does look like it though, every time the US are not at war the economy takes a huge hit, and it does almost never happen, either the US is directly in a war or is a huge part of why it started ad is selling weapons to one of the side. and seems that much cleverer peoples than me thought the same... (cf. Eisenhower). yeah the war is not against communists anymore (well kinda still though) but it still is raging, against Muslim terrorist for Bush, against terrorists for Obama and against China, Russia and Corea for Trump (well indirectly through smaller conflicts). And why can they continue sending young peoples to die, well because they cultivate hate of anything that is not America from a very young age, frankly seen from the outside the US looks like a dystopia... if i had the choice in living in North-Corea or the US the choice would be pretty hard. one is much clearer than the other but liberties seems equal all things considered.