Question: What inputs does the US need that cannot be found or created in one form or the other in the US?
Is there some natural resource that the US does not have access to within its own borders?
Is there some natural resource that the US does not have access to within its own borders?
Inputs found outside the US sort of misses the point though - we dont live in a world that is getting less connected. Instability elsewhere will find it's way here in one form or another, hence the need for someone to underwrite security. For the moment (and for the last 90 years or so) that someone has been mostly the US. It wont always be - eventually it will be another country, or coalition, but someone will underwrite global security, or the globe will be far less secure than it is today, with the attendant costs.