>The USD is one of the tools the United States uses to exert control Why should we "exert control"? Maybe if folks didn't think they needed to build a bunch of

>The USD is one of the tools the United States uses to exert control Why should we "exert control"? Maybe if folks didn't think they needed to build a bunch of aircraft carriers they'd stop building coal plants. We should adopt a second strike nuclear policy, decommision our silos, and shift to an array of submarine and other movable launchers for a smaller set of nuclear weapons rather than the old cold war model, now that we live in a multipolar world.