You do whatever you want. >preserving the rules-based international order The USA's foreign policy is anything but rules-based. They're brutal and barbaric. Y

You do whatever you want. >preserving the rules-based international order The USA's foreign policy is anything but rules-based. They're brutal and barbaric. You can agitate China and Russia as being scarier, that doesn't make the U.S. military a force of good. If you're asking the whether they have their place being shoved at the center of Defcon you have to take in the whole picture