他们还卷入了耗资巨大且无力取胜的对美军备竞赛之中，最终沦为了帝国过度扩张的牺牲品，不断向那些毫无战略价值且经济管理总是一塌糊涂的政权投入资金和资源。
They were also drawn into a costly and unwinnable arms race with the United States, and fell victim to imperial overreach, throwing money and resources at regimes with little strategic value and long track records of chronic economic mismanagement.