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  8.  @poultrypickins9572   @Poultry Pickins  The overwhelming majority of American immigrants have immigrated to the United States from countries that are far from global in their connections, The majority of them having come from the Global South. Those countries, many of whom haven't been made impoverished or kept impoverished by actions taken by the United States and its allies (and their opponents.) I've spent 16 years serving in that military you're talking about. Since World War II, the overwhelming majority of our military action has been unilateral in nature, and are most successful ones have been multilateral. Strong alliances that we maintain and do not abandon for unilateral action would have kept us out of several of our failed wars. It is not inaccurate to say the United States could feed itself, it is an accurate to pretend that the rate at which we could feed ourselves would be called luxurious or even comfortable by the average American. The overwhelming majority of the produce in your supermarkets and grocery stores are a product of a global logistic system, as is the standard of living that you yourself have become used to. There is no such thing as a truly freestanding nation on a closed environment, and technology is such now that the United States cannot even pretend otherwise. Both historically (China, Japan, others) and presently, nations that have chosen splendid isolation, have instead revealed it to be a self-limiting neutering of the country's power, Well simultaneously leaving it open to being surpassed and it's agency usurped by exterior nations. There is no longer a frontier to steal from Indigenous nations, And we are no longer limited by sail or steam to pretend the world is smaller than it is. United States involvement is global because United States existence is global. Those that dream otherwise were attempt to conform reality to that illusion or consigning themselves to the dust bin of history, and no amount of demanding otherwise is going to change that.
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