When just papered over the festering rot of systems that are same structures, policies, culture, and in many cases people who brought us here. Why would one expect any difference in outcome?
We lied to each other. We lied to Congress. We lied to the world. From Arkansas to AUKUS, this moment will have impact.
Eventually the music will stop. We are now on the second generation of leaders who have been happy to ignore this systemic failure of performance as if it is a force of nature to endure, and not a creation of man that can be changed.
If you are waiting for the uniformed leadership to speak clearly on this, you simply have not been paying attention.
If you think the Executive Branch leadership will address this, you have not been awake the last 26-months.
The only solution to this wholesale institutional failure will be in Congress. It will need the will, power, and wisdom to do what Alexander did in Gordium, and be content to do it making no friends, and receiving no personal benefit or fame.