Global public goods and peak British Empire don't belong in the same thought IMO. Might as well go in about how great a public good the Belgians and French brought to Africa in their heyday.
I definitely agree the US shouldn't insert itself as much directly like the Iraq wars. But thinking that means we should walk away from controlling global naval shipping and near immediate air presence is missing out the enormous soft power we can project. Align with us on trade and we'll make sure your ships can leave, your planes can take off. Disagree, and we'll see who answers the call when those Houthis start shooting at your boats.
Losing those air fields and making the Navy considerably smaller massively reduces the ability for the US to project security on a global state.
Meanwhile the Trump administration cuts programs while ballooning the military budget to $1T...
>Global public goods and peak British Empire don't belong in the same thought IMO. Might as well go in about how great a public good the Belgians and French brought to Africa in their heyday.
Yes, I was deliberately contrasting the US with the British Empire. The British Empire is what it looks like when a nation actually runs the world for its own benefit.
>But thinking that means we should walk away from controlling global naval shipping and near immediate air presence is missing out the enormous soft power we can project.
Again: Give me concrete examples of the benefits from this, which justify hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.
>Losing those air fields and making the Navy considerably smaller massively reduces the ability for the US to project security on a global state.
I don't want to "project security" on a global scale.
>Meanwhile the Trump administration cuts programs while ballooning the military budget to $1T...
> At the peak of the British Empire
Global public goods and peak British Empire don't belong in the same thought IMO. Might as well go in about how great a public good the Belgians and French brought to Africa in their heyday.
I definitely agree the US shouldn't insert itself as much directly like the Iraq wars. But thinking that means we should walk away from controlling global naval shipping and near immediate air presence is missing out the enormous soft power we can project. Align with us on trade and we'll make sure your ships can leave, your planes can take off. Disagree, and we'll see who answers the call when those Houthis start shooting at your boats.
Losing those air fields and making the Navy considerably smaller massively reduces the ability for the US to project security on a global state.
Meanwhile the Trump administration cuts programs while ballooning the military budget to $1T...