I would say we are lucky to live in NA instead of Europe where we're surrounded by 30 retard states but regardless, the diplomatic world is brutal and relies on realpolitik. I'll try not to get into whos wrong or right but the Russians have been balls deep in Ukraine for about 3 years (as of this month) and both sides have lost hundreds of thousands of men over land grab/political spergouts. As we have the strongest nation in the world, the only country that we would consider a threat is China, and with NATO it'll turn into a near-equal fight into a skullfucking. With this deterrent, countries like Taiwan who hold resources precious to us (like their hordes of chip factories) are safe, resulting in cheaper/better availability of goods, as countries know that if they intervene, they'll either get a protracted land war as we drip feed advanced weapon systems into their victim or an instant skullfuck horde of f35s, space-to-ground weapons and other such SAP capabilities nobody knows about.