[TwelveOfTwenty]

What an international joke we’ve become, I’m surprised the world still accepts our currency.

I was thinking the same thing. Our allies are fools if they think they can count on us to defend them.

[Jim Noble]

Our allies are fools if they think they can count on us to defend them

No, we are fools to have "allies" whose reason for existence is for US to defend THEM.

Allies are supposed to have mutually beneficial arrangements, not to serve as a pretext for a world-spanning empire.