>I do wonder what the US game plan is here long term.

Our government is run by 80 year olds and their 80 year old rich as fuck friends.

The long term plan is "Be Dead, don't care about anything"

This is a huge reason why you need diversity in any system, here we need diversity of ages, so that young people who have a high investment in a far future can counterbalance old people who have high investment in the now.

If you want long term visions, you have to reward eschewing quick wins, and we openly declared that to not be policy as of the 80s and Reagan.