You sound like Nero.
And the USSR had troops all over the place too...how did hat work out for them?
And the Syrian war is coming to a theater near you soon.
The next President will be our Gorbachev.
My point, made rather facetiously, is that if you mention to the average Conservative that our debt problem requires a cut to defense spending, they will go bat shit crazy at even the suggestion of a reduction in planned increases. Suddenly, the debt doesn’t matter. And if the debt doesn’t matter there, then it doesn’t matter anywhere.