Governments like doubling down on their failures, while private entities readjust when losses are too high, the public sector's mindset is "well it doesn't work so one needs to do more of it, right?" Fighting Russians after losing a 20-year war against Talibans, never ending escalation of a losing war in Ukraine, go after Hezbollah after failing to defeat Hamas, name your failed public policies and be guaranteed that you'll get more of it