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Originally Posted by zeek

"Today, President Trump seems intent on withdrawing the US from the entire post–World War II structure of interlocking diplomatic, military, and economic agreements and organizations that have preserved peace, stability, and prosperity since 1945. His preference for bilateral relations, conceived as zero-sum rivalries in which he is the dominant player and “wins,” overlaps with the ideological preference of Steve Bannon and the so-called alt-right for the unfettered self-assertion of autonomous, xenophobic nation-states—in short, the pre-1914 international system. That “international anarchy” produced World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Depression, the fascist dictatorships, World War II, and the Holocaust, precisely the sort of disasters that the post–World War II international system has for seven decades remarkably avoided."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/201...8KXJ_siEQfN3L8

The system set up after WWII was supposed to be temporary until Europe could get back on their feet. There is no reason for us to keep an army in Germany or Japan, just as there is no reason for them to keep their armies in our country.