• The military-industrial complex may not win wars, but it does enrich itself by sending nations weapons that we pay for.
• The big tech-government complex may not keep airliners in the air, but it does remove media posts that criticize the ruling class.
• The big pharma-government complex may not produce vaccines that work, but it does enrich itself by forcing us to take them.
• The big green-government complex may not save the planet, but it does enrich itself by selling wind turbines and solar panels and forcing us to buy them.

Before you decide whether someone is succeeding or failing, you have to figure out what he is is trying to do.