You don't understand that the U.S. is not like other countries.
When FDR proposed to build the Arsenal of Democracy in 1940 the world didn't really understand what that meant. When he announced production targets of planes, ships, tanks, in the tens of thousands they laughed.
By 1945 the world was a different place. They knew, everyone paying attention knew, this Arsenal of Democracy was real and so much bigger and more powerful than any of them imagined that the mood shifted.
We had 14,000,000 men under arms and access to as much as 10,000,000 more. We had 120 aircraft carriers. And nukes. There was no nation or combination of nations that could challenge us and they knew it.
Now the world had to face a new reality; There is, in fact, a bigger bear and how are they going to deal with that?
Rather than get greedy and take over the world, which we could have easily done, we rebuilt it.
But ever since then we have been poked at and prodded, tested, threatened, because that is what happens to the biggest bear. He must defend the crown.
So, while it's a nice fantasy for the U.S. to be as peaceful as Costa Rica, for example, and dissolve our military all together, the fact is that of all the nations on earth, ours must fight the hardest to stay peaceful.
And the only way to change that is for the U.S. to destroy itself. Keep that in mind when you see politicians refusing to investigate fraud for fear of upsetting immigrant communities. Keep that in mind when you see celebrities shitting on the 250th anniversary of our republic because they are terrified of seeming to like Trump.
Anyway, had a gummie and couldn't stop typing.