oh yeah my bad i got caught up in the making society happy part, i didn't especially agree with having to be a major player on the world stage i am happy to be more isolationist
At heart I am pretty isolationist. It's just that, looking at a global system and how much of the world depends on it. And that it's a system we made. You still want to pull out but you realize that doing so is not a simple task. Nature abhors a vacuum.
There is frankly no other nation in history that has had to operate forces of this magnitude and scale before, that also haven't destroyed themselves fantastically in doing so, other than America.
Regardless we likely are going to pull out. Without the Cold War there's no national interest for us to maintain the system. *how* we pull out matters I'm thinking about the mess after the colonial era here. Don't want to do that again.....
@EnderOctanus That's not the problem. The shipping lanes don't really matter to us. The dirty little secret is the Us doesn't profit from them. Imports are only 12% of our GDP and 2/3rds of our imports are N. American. In a lot of other places imports are how they eat.
Because with military expansion comes tension with the US, and you better be fucking sure that you can duke it out before you get complacent in said expansion.
My point was that if we don't profit over the system we have little motive to maintain it. That doesn't really hurt us but it could make the world a very messy place.
Wat is that worth? Military allies who don't have militaries? Trading partners that don't have much to sell us? I'm not saying it's inevitable I'm just saying it is plausible.
