Which President added $10 billion to the budget for an internal police force that didn't previously exist? Could that money have gone to healthcare or schools? Hmm...

> The American people (myself included) are done working half the year to earn money to pay taxes to make the world function and get none of the benefits, while the rest of the world puts their taxes towards benefits for their own society (social safety nets, paying for unlimited migration, etc).

You are utterly delusional if you think Trump and the Republicans are interested in scaling down military spending in favor of social safety nets.

> When the status quo has been the US being taken advantage of by the whole world

The US chose this status quo. America can forfeit it at any time, and give up the reigns to a country like China if they want. Nobody is forcing them to be the guarantor of global security.

Looking at a brushfire conflict like Iran, it's plainly obvious that America was wrong to instigate violence. The Strait closed, America's Navy is not getting support from bluewater vessels that actually matter, billions of dollars worth of US-owned munitions were expended, no Article 4 was ever declared, and the rest of NATO isn't chasing around blockaded tankers like Trump wanted. Until something changes, this is a net-negative conflict being gussied up in "well if we fight long enough then the debt goes down" platitude.

In truth, if we keep this war up for long enough then Americans will come home by the score in bodybags. And people like you will moan about how "America was taken advantage of" by all the countries that didn't want to kill their citizens for a Likud political objective.