Not having a military spread across the world could makes matters at home very difficult.
I’m not sure who taught you how to fight wars and win battles, but from what I was taught, you always take the fight to your enemy to stop them from taking it to you on your home soil, you keep your citizens safe that way.
I guess your view is more along the lines of waiting till they’re coming on the shores before you engage them.
You have a comperhenson problem, I told you what the people who wrote the constitution thought from facts as we know them from history. I said nothing about anything else!
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