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St. Widge said

Honestly, that would be good. We don't need to be a superpower given all that implies and it's not necessary. Maybe it was when there was a U.S.S.R. but there isn't anymore. Being a superpower now involves a large military used to interfere in the internal politics of other nations resulting in hatred of America and out of control spending on something that helps nobody. We should shift our focus from being a military power to once again being a world leader in R & D, science, and education. We were that not long ago, but gave it up to play Team America: World Police.

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There needs to be some sort of world offset to the unscrupulous superpowers who would burn the world down for their own benefit (China, Russia). But right now, we are cutting off our noses to spite our face - we are doing at the cost of not investing in ourselves (and also turning our friends into enemies at this point).

There is room for a huge amount of compromise there if we are willing to do it (and unfortunately there is too much money and corruption in the military industrial complex). It's not necessary to be able to blow up the world 50 times when once or twice will do.