Why do we need to stand against China or Russia?
Why do we need to have a global presence?
Why should the individual states that make up the United States be any different from the individual states that make up South America?
Wealth, power, prestige all lead to corruption everywhere they have been accumulated. This is fallen man’s destiny.
Because I live in the real world. Without the UNITED States as a global power, who fills the vacuum and protects our national strategic security interests? In your wet dream of 50 nation states replacing the US, will the nuclear triad be scrapped? Will the US Navy, Marine Corps, USAF, and US Army be dissolved along with the Coast Guard?
Why do we need to have a global presence?
Because we are a great power with global interests including protecting the freedom of the seas, commercial interests, and protecting our citizens abroad. We also have treaties with other nations that involve responsibilities and obligations.
Why should the individual states that make up the United States be any different from the individual states that make up South America?
Duh! What is the alternative? 50 separate countries with their own passports, armed forces, foreign policies, etc.? You are advocating for the dissolution of the richest and most powerful country in the world, the last substantive defender of individual freedom and liberty in the world. Would you rather see the CCP as the dominant world power?
You are madder than a March hare.