So does the Navy protect us from Muslims that want to enslave us or do they protect us at home? Japan and Hawaii were island kingdoms. Islane mentality thinks of the outside world as all the same. Japan wanted Asia for the asians. Now a stronger China wants the same. It’s get out but keep the money coming in. Neoconish?
Totally different subjects.
Japan refused to treat shipwrecked sailors humanely.
Hawaii welcomed the strange explorers with open arms (at first). Hawaii remained independent for over a hundred years. Japan is still independent, after the occupation form WWII, where they killed off tens of millions of Chinese.
Sounds like you are pushing some kind of weird isolationism/Buddhism, where the USA must take no action, lest their be a potential bad result.
I address the circumstance, why one of those you said didn’t want to have anything to do with the West when they really did, and you try to derive a general statement for SOP?