How so? When that is the reason you dominated the world since taking centre stage in global relevancy during the world wars. Which other country has military bases all over the world. You think they don't get that money back? When the American dollar could damn near be spent anywhere. Stop sleeping man.
I'm pretty dang sure we don't need that many bases which drive up maintenance spending (where most of the U.S military spending goes).
We got ballistic missiles, nuclear capable subs and a whole lot of nukes.
If you got a nuclear deterrent, you're deterring. Seems to be working great for the other countries in 2023, with significantly less spending. shyt, it deters us.
You don't need much more than nukes and making it known you'll use them - and countries know we'll use every single last one in our arsenal to win a war.
That's why we got center stage. All that other shyt ain't scaring anybody.
In 2023 if we didn't have nukes and only had a Navy/Air Force with rockets and bombs nobody would be scared of us.
They'd simply blow up our ships and bases.
However, countries are scared of us because they know if that were to happen or they attack U.S soil those nukes would be flying in and we got many many many more than they do. That's the only thing that really matters in modern warfare and that don't take hundreds of billions to a trillion dollars of maintenance fees to sustain year after year.
Let's put it this way: China, Russia and the U.S know we can blow each other clean off the map already. Nukes would be the first and last option. None of this other fancy bullshyt. If they declared war right now we'd all be gone in 15 minutes. All these other weapons and shyt are basically ways to flex to the world what excess there are. It's basically a bunch of
expensive mean-mugging and face-fighting. Don't need it.
