Good point, and I can’t disagree. I have for a long time largely felt the same way about Europe and Japan re-militarizing on the theory that while it is good to

Good point, and I can’t disagree. I have for a long time largely felt the same way about Europe and Japan re-militarizing on the theory that while it is good to have allies, it is better to have allies armed to the teeth and prepared to defend themselves too if our politics ever took a turn for the stupid and we indulged our isolationist tendencies again.