We defended our economic and geopolitical influence. I really don’t know how much “policing” we did from any truly moral or ethical standpoint. it’s almost all been about keeping rivals at bay in some way or another. We delivered democracy…or whatever puppet government that promised the do what we wanted…at the point of a gun more often than not. China will likely move into the US’s economic role and has been pushing that way for quite some time. As far as military intervention, we won’t be able to afford it anymore with the loss of favorable trade or other agreements. Where the US may have felt like a necessary evil to some countries allowing us to have bases or other dominant presence, those countries are probably going to start looking elsewhere or solve those issues internally and hold the US at arm’s length.
We defended our economic and geopolitical influence. I really don’t know how much “policing” we did from any truly moral or ethical standpoint. it’s almost all been about keeping rivals at bay in some way or another. We delivered democracy…or whatever puppet government that promised the do what we wanted…at the point of a gun more often than not. China will likely move into the US’s economic role and has been pushing that way for quite some time. As far as military intervention, we won’t be able to afford it anymore with the loss of favorable trade or other agreements. Where the US may have felt like a necessary evil to some countries allowing us to have bases or other dominant presence, those countries are probably going to start looking elsewhere or solve those issues internally and hold the US at arm’s length.