If I'm stuck living with someone and they regularly punch me in the face for "preventative" reasons, I'll put rat poison in their coffee.

Domestic abuser logic seems ill-advised as foreign policy. Everyone already knows the US MIC can kill them personally with impunity if wished.

Yet Russians are laughing in America’s face every way imaginable.

That's because we elected a clown, not because our military is weak.

Your military will get weak when the clown replaces competent people with clowns loyal to the top clown.

Obama and Biden were clowns?

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

"I can get the drug prices down… 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable." - Donald J. Trump, POTUS

Seems exactly like someone who knows the equivalent of being punched in the face. Thats not a deterrent, it's an action that provokes retaliatory action from a place of fear of needing to defend ones self. If a group is dangerous enough for one to think they could do harm, leaving them without options/scaring them is an awful strategy

You want to deter wild animals, not scare or corner them. Rattlesnakes want to deter you from stepping on them, not scare you into doing so.

I haven’t given anyone a reason to want to punch me in the face :)

The attacks happen unprovoked and usually at the weak

Your argument is that stronger nations bully weaker nations, and somehow this supports the idea that there should be only one strong nation.