| Hiku said: The USA defense budget was already beyond insane before this vote... People often forget, or don't commonly mention, that even though Republicans are the main offenders of taking large corporate donations, there are plenty of Democrats that do the same. |
China is an economic enemy, and a political one. It could be a military one down the road because of those things.
We have had a horrible history with Russia and that will probably continue, so need to be on alert.
Saudi Arabia is friendly, but who knows when a radical islamic group will overthrow their monarchy? Then, they won't be so friendly.
India and Pakistan every now and then are just looking for an excuse to wipe each other out.
France and the UK have become distant from the United States recently, even under Bush and Obama, as Europe pushes more towards socialism or extreme liberalism (American definition).
Japan is our closest friend on that list right now, and they need support if NK, China, or Russia ever do anything.
Our military size and power prevents a lot of countries from getting any wise ideas. It's a deterrent having this high of a budget. If we slashed it and became isolationists again terror organizations would run amock, dictatorships would rise, and stable parts of the world wouldn't be stable. If we promised to not intervene (because wr didn't want to spend the money) Putin would easily invade more parts of Europe, NK and China would try and take SK, and middle eastern nation's would have multiple revolutions leading to Israel being attacked on all sides.
