I hate to say this breh, but this is proud American delusion on display. What does a strong military matter if every other critical aspect of America is falling apart?
What was a slowly recovering economy just got nuked in a matter of weeks of the president coming into office.
Now that we've destroyed all our longstanding relationships with our allies, isolating ourselves. That means there is no longer that same network of shared defense or shared intelligence across the world like before. Basically now being forced to act alone. You know how more vulnerable that makes us? That leaves us more vulnerable than before when we had bases and mutual agreements everywhere around the world
Before, America was able to set the tone all over the world. Not just because of military strength but also because of their influence in alliances. Now that those relationships have been torn up, that global clout is gone. THere's no more diplomatic leverage like before. The rest of the world is making moves without America's input.
All our govt institutions are being dismantled at an unbelievable rate. social security and medicaid on the verge of being cut. Dept of Education dismantled and scientists working on cures being fired. ignoring the courts and bringing the legitimacy of the Constitution itself to its knees. You think an empire can remain strong with all of that happening internally?
We have to be real. This ain't the 1990s anymore. What is so impressive about big guns and stealth fighter jets when Russia was able to manipulate an entire election with some social media fukkery? You think America is still as secure as it was before with the drunk ass head of the DoD carelessly sending classified war plans on a random app not even knowing who all was in the group? We're still just as strong when the president decides to fire the head of the NSA off the recommendation of an airhead botox lipped conspiracy theorist?
"but at least nobody would bomb us tho"
Literally anything would have been an improvement