Seventy years ago, the industrial might of the United States not only lavishly equipped our own armed forces and projected their power to every corner of the earth, we also lavishly equipped the armed forces of our allies. American production was such that we built weapons systems and support systems nobody else could even think of building because they simply did not have the resources. We built them not because we had to, but because we could. And to top it off, we had enough leftover capacity to build two different types of atomic weapons; bombs that five years earlier were no more than theories on a chalkboard.
And we threw it all away.
The US built our world with resources stolen from people of color in far off distant lands like Kenya and Indonesia. /S