Should the U.S continue to squander money on overseas wars and kinetic weapons, or invest in space laser weapons instead?

The problem with the science fiction thinking nonsense is we do not have a power supply that can produce any meaningful particle discharge or any meaningful laser blast. We're in the nuclear age we know how to make a nuclear reactor. We don't know how to build any meaningful particle weapons or any meaningful laser cannons just yet.

The sort of space lasers you're talking about are very, very high-powered

and are not really practical at the current time.

(Lasers that powerful require basically an entire warehouse-sized support and power structure. The power requirements are ENORMOUS.)

We can (probably) make space lasers that can knock out a high-altitude missile or another satellite

but a laser that can reach the ground

and

kill large groups of people?

As far as I know, a laser that powerful doesn't exist ANYwhere

let alone one able to achieve a range of Earth orbit to Earth surface

and with a power supply small enough to lift into space.

Space lasers are the future baby! What good will the racist cons guns do against a space laser you Nazi scum!

"The US Space Force's first mission should be to counter Jewish Space Lasers (JSLs), although watching comminist California burn don't bother me so much."

---Marjorie Taylor Greene

they should spend money on helping the homeless with drug addiction issues