we have. we are withdrawing from bretton woods and making it clear that everyone has to protect their own waters or pay up (if we even care, which we don't). which means anyone can park destroyers on trade lanes so long as they do not interfere with the us. people don't understand what this means or how powerful the us is globally.  china completely depends on the us for security around the globe. people do not understand this at all.  if the us withdraws it's protection over navigation, global free trade is over. global free trade has only been around since the end of ww2. because the us built it. which means that from estonia west to japan and south again to argentina trade lines are secure. but everywhere else is totally and completely fucked, or like the russians, at the mercy of the turks who are about to expand, and are nato. this is why you will see a lot of scrambling for new alliances. we're going back to pre-ww2 conditions and the only nations that are secure in this environment is the one with the network of battlefleets.
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