>>514905218
No OP is right. The modern west repeatedly made decisions for short term gain/profit with no care for the future. Maybe sending all your industry to a communist country to own the USSR was a bad idea. Maybe arming a bunch of terrorists in Afghanistan to own the USSR again was also a bad idea. For the west in general, mass immigration to make sure the GDP keeps going up is the very definition of trading your future for short term gain. Rampant unchecked greed and shortsightedness is the exact problem with the west over the last century. Same with the Ukraine war too.