Blowing up Bugattis

A Russian T-72 tank is supposedly around $2M. A tomahawk cruise missile is roughly the same price. A Buggati Chiron is around $3M, which is amazing. How could it be "worth" $3M?

If you think about dozens of Buggatis driving around in Ukraine to "secure" a couple of counties, it makes the absurdity of the war in that country more obvious. All the time and effort that goes into building one of those Buggatis immediately would get flushed down the toilet when they'd blow up or crash or drop their transmission or something. A pile of wrecked Buggatis seems impossibly stupid, though a bunch of smoldering wrecked tanks seems like an inevitable part of war and seems somehow reasonable.

The US basically drops the equivalent of several dealerships worth of super cars in ordnance onto mud huts and into desert mountains on a regular basis and accomplishes exactly nothing.

War is a Racket as Smedly Butler said. It always was, and is probably even more so today. It's the most useless industry and is entirely funded by tax dollars and debt.

Empires have a really hard time holding onto countries full of free people. It seems to inevitably cost more than they can stand to pay. In fact, it seems like the whole point of an Empire is to fund and equip armies that are too expensive and to build infrastructure that's too expensive to maintain.