Pacific Nerd fan pedantery: the Kaiju emerged in 2013. The movie takes place in 2020. We know this partially because Obama is President when the attacks begin and presides over US participation in the Jaeger program, but by 2020 the mitigation strategy has shifted to a Wallhttps://twitter.com/soft_wanning/status/1259824652513423360 …
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The problem is the way the movie sets it up, the kaiju are this constantly exponentially escalating threat, which means they have to make constantly exponentially more powerful Jaegers, and the governments are right that they can't do this without going bankrupt
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They're completely fucked either way unless they succeed in some desperate plan to break the cycle by proactively attacking the Kaiju Masters through the Breach (the plot of the film), and they'd rather not think about that and instead retreat into denialism
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