Trump Talks Foreign Policy: "We will stop looking to topple regimes."

[King Tiger]

[QUOTE=hexpunK;51463379]They don't have to fucking put boots on ground to be a problem for your country lmao. What the hell kinda of delusion is that? I mean, it would help but straight up invasions of superpowers don't tend to happen. Pretty hard to pull off.

What is possible is interfering with your allies, countries you rely on for trade, etc. dealing more of an economic blow or attempting to shift the politics of the region to be more hostile towards your country. (and you will need allies to trade with, considering the GDP of the USA domestic trading alone wouldn't sustain it, let alone provide the supply needed thanks to the devastated manufacturing industries in MEDCs).[/quote]

But we need to put [B]our[/B] boots on the ground because of some vague, non-violent "threat" to our "interests."

You're making justifications for a huge infrastructure of corporate imperialism that invades and destabilizes entire regions for profit and for geopolitical projects.

What other country behaves like this? Does China invade nations when they start losing money? Seriously start thinking about what you're defending please.

[quote]I'm hardly a neocon though, military de-escalation should be something we all strive for. Unfortunately not everybody seems to agree with that, so having some kind of minimal force present in key locations around the world can help as a defensive measure against aggressive states. Not even necessarily states that are enemies with you, but ones that insist on expanding into allied states and using force against allies.[/quote]

"Allies" argument.

Why does the US need allies around the world other than to find buddies who will help us shoot missiles somewhere? How does this relate to defending the actual US, a nation located in North America and that has no actual enemies that can threaten it?

Doesn't having "allies" and dicking around in the Middle East keep ratcheting up tensions with Russia? Doesn't that make a nuclear war more likely? Does that make us safer or less safe?

[gukki]

It's nice and all that you're trying to be the world police but we're the ones suffering the consequences.