What's really interesting is where exactly the debt is going.

If the US were funneling money into long-term programs designed to improve the country and its residents' lives and/or earn some return on investment, that would be one thing.

Instead, it seems focused on continually increasing military spending (to little effect - see: Straight of Hormuz) and reducing the proportion of the tax revenues coming from its wealthiest individuals while taking a chainsaw to programs helping the poorest without any significant savings to show for it.

You couldn't do a worse job if you were following step-by-step instructions by an adversary for sabotaging the country from within.

It’s going to paying for an aging demographic and medical care. The same as literally every western country. Which is why I don’t view this as a particularly American issue.

America is doing a bad job of addressing this, but it also has more leeway.