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The USA benefits greatly from its international position. That position isn't borne from natural order, but from wielding the USA's strengths - including military strength. Arming allies is part of that, and it is especially smart when they fight those who threaten the USA or the USA's allies. Isolationism is a quick way to lose power so, even if all you see is budgetary accounting, the purpose of hard power should be clear to you.

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Will Ukraine defeating Russia do anything to make my life better? Will Israel existing fix the gas prices?

Yes, although not in ways that are as obvious as looking at a price number. Peaceful democracies make much better economic partners than belligerent autocracies. If you're one of the millions of people living near Russia, a Ukrainian defeat would mean a much higher chance that your city gets flattened by rockets in the future.

The more that wars of aggression and nuclear threats get rewarded, the more of them the world will see, increasing the odds of larger scale violence.

Will germany conquering poland make your life any worse? Nah. Oh look, now it's france... nah it's fine you're not in france. oop, there goes england. Oop shit now I need help and all my friends are gone.

Turns out, maintaining a network of strong allies has long term positive benefits.

These are awfully similar to Russian propaganda taking points, relatively new account, reader beware.

LOL. This is an 8 month old account, but no I'm actually a KGB ultraspy warlord with golden AKs or whatever. All I want is for my country to stop pouring billions of dollars into fueling our imperialistic desires and doing the opposite of it's original job which was safeguarding our freedom and rights.

Yeah stopping a power hungry warmonger in Europe is such an imperialistic thing to do! It’s Russian propaganda, whether you’re Russian or not is irrelevant.

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