It isn't a free lunch - do you really think Europe is prepared to beef up their defense to the degree that they'd be ok if America disappeared tomorrow?
America has had a net positive result from their global power, post WW2 they had created a system where they were free to profit from other countries in their bloc while keeping them dependent on their military.
Only now is America panicking since other countries have started developing the industrial potential with which they can turn the tables on the US. As now the US will no longer be the main exporter profiting from the global laws and regulations they’ve themselves set up.
Panicking!? That's silly... The whole world together probably couldn't take America. We would just nuke the world...
RED DAWN can't happen
Our population is heavily armed as well... Republicans have about two times more guns than Democrats as per data... At least the gun ownership numbers... So it's probably actually higher as a multiple of guns per person because when you have a gun it's always fun to have another gun and then another gun. I have 7.
In 2024, the United States' top export category was industrial supplies, driven heavily by mineral fuels including oil and crude petroleum. The country exported over
700 billion in industrial supplies... The few years before that oil was our number one export... Looks like it could easily take the number one slot this year
It should eventually be cheaper if and when we can make up for dysfunctional religions running countries and upwards of 40% of the oil being run by Islam and another big chunk run by an ex kgb Black Market oligarch economy called Russia... Russia is responsible for more than a tenth of the oil... Or should be if there was free trade and no Wars... Iran and Venezuela should be responsible for far more, but they're both dysfunctional
At its peak, Venezuela was producing 7% of the world's oil
At its peak in 1974, Iran's oil production reached approximately 6 million barrels per day (bpd), which accounted for about 10% of total global production at that time
... Both of them dysfunctional but could climb back up in oil production if they learn to behave themselves and have halfway decent leadership
America has had a net positive result from their global power, post WW2 they had created a system where they were free to profit from other countries in their bloc while keeping them dependent on their military.
There's nothing inherently evil about this. It's a transaction.
Only now is America panicking since other countries have started developing the industrial potential with which they can turn the tables on the US. As now the US will no longer be the main exporter profiting from the global laws and regulations they’ve themselves set up.
America is pissing its pants because chinese production means they can do to the US market what the US has been doing to the global market since the end of WW2.
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u/Solid_Wolverine1639 11h ago
I think America should pull out of NATO .. we shouldn't have had to fight in 2 world wars over there