The last 60 years have been a great point in my favor. Since Korea, we've been posting Ls every 20 years. And its cost us heavily, both in modern industry (which we've shipped out to countries that aren't in perpetual wartime footing) and in domestic infrastructure (roads/bridges collapsing, aviation industry in retreat, silicon sector morbund, bio-tech sector lagging Cuba). We export raw materials and import finished goods. The polar opposite of what an imperial superpower is supposed to be doing.

The only two finished products we produce reliably are fossil fuels and fission bombs. Everything outside of that is FIRE sector speculation. That's been the consequence of US foreign policy. We've surrendered all the bedrock industries that gave us international footing at the end of WW2. Not good.