Your projection is not supported by your quotation. Hamilton understood, as apparently you do not, that to avoid war you must build up the military.
Whatever Hamilton was he was not “delusional” about military matters.
Hamilton understood, as apparently you do not, that to avoid war you must build up the military.
...by preemptively sicking it on South America? As I stated and with John Adams' full concurrence, Hamilton was delusional.