>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...
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...
I'm a Democrat. I voted against Trump.