

I agree, but it actually kind of makes a worse case for them. Sometimes investments don’t work out. Sometimes loans are defaulted on too, but we have a much greater expectation that loans should be repaid.
If these people “invested” in 2023 expecting a certain level of growth and now we’re in 2025 and the growth wasn’t maintained, that’s their fault for making a bad prediction with their “investment”.
I dunno, we also just get bored and angry when our national cock is publicly embarrassed for a long time. We didn’t sour on Afghanistan because of too many deaths, we soured because it should have been over already and nothing we were doing seemed to be actually progressing toward a incontrovertible win. It was an ongoing demonstration of our limitations.