An Obsession with Big Toys and Shiny Logos

The Soviet Union collapsed because they over-extended their poor economics.
They spent all the money they needed to feed their proletariat on tanks, planes, and ships.
What is the point in fighting for someone who has starved to death?
After a dysfunctional revolution they now answer to a mob of washed-up KGB trolls.

We will collapse because we over-extend our poor ideology.
We spend all our attention on what we got right in the past so that we never get anything right in the future.
What is the point in fighting for private property when the property is fallow, radioactive, or foreclosed?
Who will we answer to? Another industrial stranglehold?