America has enormous debts but it still spends as much money on defence as all the rest of the world put together.
And if that makes you uncomfortable, it is worth remembering that wherever you are, there is a good chance that if your country is ever invaded, your leader's first phone call will be to the White House in Washington.
My first immediate thought was the remote chance of my country being invaded. This led almost instantly to the uncharitable thought that if I found myself in another random country, the odds are good (historically and looking to the future) that it would be the US doing the invading. Amusingly the last sentence of the quote still makes sense in this scenario.
And if that makes you uncomfortable, it is worth remembering that wherever you are, there is a good chance that if your country is ever invaded, your leader's first phone call will be to the White House in Washington.
My first immediate thought was the remote chance of my country being invaded. This led almost instantly to the uncharitable thought that if I found myself in another random country, the odds are good (historically and looking to the future) that it would be the US doing the invading. Amusingly the last sentence of the quote still makes sense in this scenario.