“Education” refers to the process of acquiring knowledge and skills. The author discusses how the education systems in the United States, Hungary, and Germany have been affected by the costs of Western foreign policy operations, including the deterioration of public schools, the rise in student debt, and the impact on career prospects.
In the United States, public schools have experienced funding constraints that have produced larger class sizes, lower teacher salaries, deteriorating facilities, and the elimination of essential programs. This underfunding has had a profound impact on the quality of education, particularly in working-class communities that have historically been the backbone of military recruitment. The shift from public funding to student debt financing has resulted in approximately 1.7 trillion dollars in current American student loan debt held by around 45 million Americans. This financial burden has led to deferred family formation, deferred home purchases, and broader financial constraints for an entire generation of educated workers.
In Hungary, the educational system has undergone significant restructuring under the government of Viktor Orbán, which has produced substantial damage to the conditions of Hungarian education. The forced exile of Central European University in 2018 was one of the most visible cases of this damage, but it was part of a broader pattern that included the restructuring of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the curtailment of academic freedom across multiple Hungarian universities, and the deterioration of conditions for Hungarian academic and intellectual work.
In Germany, the broader European economic conditions have affected the career prospects of young people, with documented worse outcomes than previous German generations had at the same career stage. The German housing market in major cities has produced housing costs that have substantially constrained the conditions for German young people to form families, invest in their own careers, and participate in the German social fabric in the way previous generations had.
These systemic issues in education reflect the broader impact of the “architecture” of Western foreign policy operations, which have redirected resources away from public investment in education and toward military and geopolitical interventions. The cumulative effect has been a degradation of educational quality and accessibility, with long-term consequences for the social and economic fabric of these societies.
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