The USA has become a militaristic imperialist nation, but Americans don’t know it.
How disgusting.
Gipper, it's been a militaristic, imperialistic nation since WWII. You don't need the biggest most epensive military in the world for defense purposes. And no nation that has ever possess the biggest baddest army in the world has every done anything with it but use it in and imperialistic fashion. Not the Greeks, the Romans, the British, the Germans, or the Russians.
The Romans were ultimately bankrupted by their armies, and the promise of an acre of land for each retiring centurion. The USA is currently being bankrupted by the cost of maintaining the largest military in history, and the costs of the promises made to those who have served in 18 years of continuous warfare.