When you make yourself the guarantor of peace and stability of every clime and place you end up in a lot of wars!
“.. guarantor of peace and stability .. every clime and place ..” - a fool’s errand if there ever was one!
About 1.3 trillion dollars of ADDITIONAL DEBT per year added, with the largest part of that being the "world's policeman." For this, Trump's sarcasm when visiting the "beautiful" new NATO headquarters was enough for the politicians in Europe to resent him. Why? So few NATO nations actually were fully funding their portion of NATO over this same time. Why? Because the world's policeman was supposed to pick up the tab. I know this personally for having lived there in much of that time. The US was supposed to do this, so that the socialist sorts could more easily afford their welfare and immigration and, of course, corruption. Threaten them and....
The real fools don't want American fools to awaken to the simple fact that the US has been flimflammed by European politics and by the Democrats and RINOs here, as these actors have suppressed real conservatives there and here.