I’m strongly opposed to the continued massive funding of the US military.
The Founding Fathers knew the dangers of standing armies.
All human beings...of every race/ethnicity/nationality...prefer their own kind. The only reason why non Europeans want to settle here...and in Europe...is prosperity. They have no desire to become Americans...Canadians...Brits...Germans,etc.
Ethnically pure nation states are a fairly recent development in Europe.
Up until 1918, Europe was largely comprised of multi-ethnic states, including the British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires. Even Italy can be considered multi-ethnic, with Lombardy and Sicily being quite different.
Nationalism was an outcome of the degenerating Austro-Hungarian Empire with the various ethnic populations from Czechs to Serbs developing their identities during the last half of the 19th Century. Zionism as a Jewish nationalism was one component of this movement.
Nationalism was brought to full flower by the idiot Woodrow Wilson and his insistence on self-determination by ethnic groups.