OK, let's demonstrate to everyone @ FR that we understand the very big picture, perhaps the largest macro perspective possible. Ready? What is the key, the linchpin to US global dominance?
Is it the people - now nearly 50% minority with an avg IQ below 100? Is it the systems of laws, freedoms and liberties? Hey, wasn't the 2A meant to allow the people to form an equal bulwark to federal power? What about the 4th & 5th? So, let me ask again, what makes the USA so great, it's people, culture, laws? (At this point the keyboard warriors from flyover country get their knickers in a wad. Evidently, they have no idea of what the 'new America' is like, but rather channel a fantasy version of 'Murica born of their youth.)
The answer my friends for US hegemony is that the dollar is the global reserve currency. For that one reason alone, it's why we are able to run annual budget deficits in the $x billions per year, why the national debt is $x trillions, and unfunded liabilities and other electoral promises surpassing immeasurable $x trillions of dollars. And guess where a huge portion of that freshly printed money out of thin air is directed? Ding ding we have a winner - it goes toward funding and financing the MIC for advanced weapons research and development programs, along with standard operating costs of maintaining a global posture.
OK, what will happen when the US (eventually) loses the global reserve? I don't think anyone really wants to know. So, in the meantime, it IS in our national interest to protect the dollar at all cost. Which means we must (constantly) demonstrate that no other foreign power can challenge us either militarily or economically. But the clock is ticking - how can a 'new' US comprised of lower IQ individuals from less dedicated and disciplined cultures (remember multi-culti is the norm) hope to compete against a monolith like China looming in the future?
Smart money says it can't; which of course is why the US is being degraded domestically and invaded physically on our respective borders. So, for now if you enjoy the relative peace and quiet before yet another dominant empire in the annals of history begins to teeter and fall. By all means we need to be on the outer ramparts keeping the wolves at bay.
But we also need to show the world that we can be good stewards of such responsibility to keep their goodwill - endless wars is not gonna be enough in the long run. China is already working out deals with its neighbors like Russia and now India to bypass the dollar in their direct trade. Our heavy handedness in destroying other country's economies by restricting their access to dollar payments is wearing thin, even with some of our Western Europe allies. My guess is we have one more decade of dollar rule at best before the rest of the world insists upon some sort of "world currency". That's when the sh*t really hits the fan here in the US. Of course with our insane debt levels and endless spending it could very well be less than a decade should the whole ponzi collapse before then.