China with all its money is spreading it around with the intent to gain influence throughout the world. Russia, struggling all the years under the dictator Putin is using some of its oil/gas money to regain its position of influence.
Meanwhile, in the USA the people are tired of being positioned in every country of the world(my belief). We have allowed our nation to decay while spending trillions on other nations, particularly the middle east. I for one, am sick of seeing our treasury poured into undeserving countries.
Let Europe defend itself. Same with Japan and Korea. And if we continue to maintain the role we have, it should be cost plus. Let these nations pay for the USA to be their protector. Time for bullsh*t is over.
China is spending the money they got from producing that which the US would not, far cheaper.
The billions spent on foreign nations that I am tired of are the billions in foreign aid which end up in the pockets of tinpot dictators and rulers who are not our friends.
As for maintaining military hegemony throughout the world, to fail to do so will only leave a vacuum which other nations (esp. China) will fill. That will mean less secure trade routes, and eventually cause economic distress and strategic weakness for ourselves. Note England's decline with the decline in their military presence in the world, that presence which made their entire mercantile expansion possible and kept them as a first tier economy for generations. When dealing with larger economies, like Europe's, or the Saudis, send them a bill for providing that penumbra of security.
The globalists (and, for want of a better term, Communists) have seen to that necessity, however, economically speaking.
It is no accident that our manufacturing capability has been castrated by environmental kooks. The KGB was investing in Environmental Organizations back in the 1960s and 1970 for that exact purpose: to hamper and hinder western industrial capabilities and growth. In the 1940s we were seen as "the arsenal of democracy" because we could out produce any nation on the planet, and generally did so with domestic resources.
Unless we get off the whole 'save the Earth' kick and recover our domestic manufacturing capability, mining and refining other resources (we can do that without causing the pollution of decades ago--we have the technology and the knowledge), we will need to maintain the trade routes which we currently depend on for much used and consumed in our daily lives, not just for consumerism, but for national security as well.
