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> US hasn't done much for its "allies", either, no matter the party in power.

Except for paying for the lion's share of whatever "agreements" and "accords" are entered into. ::shrug::

That will come to an end in due course when the world moves away from the dollar.

It's already started, will take a few more years.

Good luck with the Yuan.

Bilateral currency agreements are already in place between dozens of countries. The renminbi is just one of them.

USAians may not like it, so downvote away.

On the contrary, I look forward to my tax dollars not going to play team America world police. Let someone else burn their young and money for a while.

Allies shouldn't align with their block's primary geopolitical enemies...

I'd term it "theopolitical" more than "geopolitical"... which is both more ominous and closer to the truth IMHO. One particular dusty-book-infused worldview, for example, can cite an order of magnitude more xenophobic and violent passages directed towards specifically-named outsider-followers of certain other dusty-book-infused worldviews than all the others, for example.

Eh. I can see how MAGAing it up to 11 might lead to some shifting of those blocks in a complicated world.

Israel has entered the chat.

Yeah how dare the US maintain maritime security across the world, pay for an outsized share of security, and give more aid than any other country on earth bringing unprecedented prosperity to the world bringing billions out of poverty. US should have sat back and let the communists win, that turned out so good.

Whatever US is securing, is directly tied to its own growth machine. Let's not overlook the fact that US has been funding right-of-center, often far-right, politics overseas for decades, and aiding THOSE governments. Covertly preventing progressive movements worldwide doesn't seem as benevolent to me as you portrait it to be.

Numerous civilizations in history brought then-unprecedented prosperity to humanity. At the end of the day, nations that they oppressed under the name of being the big brother, rose against them. How dare they, right?

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