“what about every other country on Africa doing the same thing?”
There is no compelling national interest in Africa, except for ensuring chromium stores are accessible.
“What about South America? Why ignore them?”
I don’t see a compelling national interest there.
“Why Ignore the half of the middle east we haven tried to world build yet?”
Nation building is generally a folly and specifically a disaster in most muslim nations. The only interest we have their is to ensure the free flow of oil through the Straits and to ensure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons.
“Isolationism is not the act of minding ones own international business.”
It is the act of withdrawing entirely from the world, specifically, when vital US interests are at stake. Russia confronts us at every turn, whenever they can, even while weakened. They are an historical enemy and further, they relish the role. It is in our interest to impede them and contain them.
You just trashed your whole argument. You say there is no NA in Africa then give one.
you say there is no NA in south America as tens of thousands of their people fleeing communism there pass through Mex and come here illegally.
you call nation building a folly (rightly) then continue to argue for nation building in the Ukraine.
Oil flow there matters to Europe. Not to us. We are awash in oil. We just are denied it by dems using it as an excuse to go to war with Russia.
Where exactly has Russia confronted us at ANY time? We go to them hat in hand often asking their permission to do all kinds of things in that hemisphere. If they tell us to FOAD, that isn’t a confrontation THEY initiated.