[Imagine] a world in which American power isn’t constantly being called upon to address faraway crises or reassure nervous allies

lmfao what the fuck is he talking about. who the fuck is calling upon the United States to help them out other than maybe Israel?

Our allies stop freeloading off our security guarantees and start spending more on their own defense.

you're causing the problems in the first place! how many countless terrorists currently exist that would not if America hadn't gotten involved in the Middle East?!

Our foreign policy becomes less arrogant and more collaborative. We lose the illusion that we can, or should, solve other people’s problems, and we free ourselves from the personal sacrifices and moral compromises that go with that illusion.

oh, the massive self-sacrifice on behalf of the Senate to pour even more money into the pockets of military companies. the absolute humility and generosity of these people to try and solve the world's problems by drone striking children until they fear blue skies.

Our economic policies shift to adapt to a less-globalized world. Instead of depending on China for low-cost manufacturing and labor, we reinvest in American workers and factories and become independent in everything from energy to microchips.

maybe America shouldn't have done it in the first place? fucking moron.

This person imagines America as a superhero who's getting a bit old and is finding it difficult to solve people's problems and is thinking of just retiring and hanging up his cape, rather than the actual image, which is a supervillain who causes countless tragedies of untold magnitude across the entire globe and reinforces a system that leads to the daily suffering of billions.