I agree. I often read comments from people who think the US shouldn’t be spending a dime outside of our borders. But US policy is oriented towards stopping any global wars and this means keeping expansionist powers like China and Russia from gaining hegemon that enables them to isolate and threaten the US. By and large I think the smaller world powers, the Vietnams and Taiwans, prefer a distant and mostly absent hegemon like the US over a close-up and personal bully like China. It has been a good policy and has kept global order and trade working and has been responsible for the largest expansion of the human genome in the history of the world. Fewer people by percentage are poor and starving today than at any other time. Of course, the Ukraine war will affect that and possibly, just because of that one conflict millions may die from starvation. This is what the US was trying to stop. Amazing the failure to stop it comes under a Democrat...they are in all the biggest wars.
Yep. The US is rare because we are a benevolent hegemon. We are interested in preserving the global order and that's important because right now we have the freedom of the seas. That's important for trade.