yeah right, every fucking trumpkin in the world always qualifies their love of the piece of shit by saying they didn't vote for him or they don't like them. You're not being original.
Once again your warhawk brainwashed mind doesn't get it. isolationism is literally isolating yourself as a nation from the rest of the world, and that's exactly what your butt buddy trump is doing by alienating all of our allies and spreading nothing but populist hatred and bullshit. What I said is to build the bridges back to a level where the US and it's allies can work together to bridge the gap through trade and diplomacy. You'll never fully trust anybody else but you can get to a point where you're not constantly fighting with them and invading their countries for their resources.
You say it doesn't work but through your entire lifetime America's never done anything differently so how would you ever know? Everything America has been doing for the last 55 years has blown up in our faces and caused all this turmoil, death, and extreme financial deficits with nothing tangible like a functioning healthcare system to show for it. It's time to try something different.
No, there isn't a distance between what I said and supporting forward defense. I said maintain presence in the area through alliances with countries in the area BUT NOT through invading and continuing to occupy foreign nations in a war effort. What I said is forward defense, and what you want is more of the same war activities.
We aren't there to keep a balance or help them or any of that propaganda bullshit you soaked up. It's about financial interests and oil. It's why we need to rid ourselves of our complete dependence on oil and start building out alternative fuel infrastructure, all of which can easily be funded with a fraction of the printed money used to fund this 20+ year invasion war effort. We don't need to be a presence there other than maintaining our defensive positions in the region in case of attack on American soil.