As the US gets more than "cheap labor" for its troop deployments. Very large parts of it is protecting democracy. Whether you believe that's worth protecting i

As the US gets more than "cheap labor" for its troop deployments. Very large parts of it is protecting democracy. Whether you believe that's worth protecting is a different question, but it's left over from cold war & proxy wars against Russia in both Vietnam and Korea. This is still once way the US exerts its presence against China. Maybe futile, but it is more than just "cheap labor".